Data Science Ethics: What it Means and Why it Matters

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This session features The Data Incubator instructor Ana Hocevar, who discusses what data ethics means and why it matters.

 

Nowadays, data is used to deliver insights and drive business decisions, but while that can improve revenue, reduce costs, create new opportunities, identify new ideas, improve customer experience and more, using data comes with responsibilities and ethical challenges.

 

In this webinar, Ana will discuss:

  • What moral obligations data ethics encompasses, and why every analyst and data scientist should care
  • Principles of data ethics together with best practices
  • How data ethics relates to the use of machine-learning algorithms

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