WEEK ONE

Link to Review Ticket - https://github.com/shreya-ahujaa/shreya.individual/issues/2

5.3 College Board Notes - Computing Bias

Essential Knowledge:

     ○ computing innovations can reflect existing human biases because of biases written into the algorithms or biases in the data used by the innovation
     ○ programmers should take action to reduce bias in algorithms used for computing innovations as a way of combating existing human biases
     ○ biases can be embedded at all levels of software development

Examples Netflix

Explicit Data

   ○ thumbs up/thumbs down
   ○ name, address, etc.

Implicit Data

   ○ when you watch
   ○ what you binged
   ○ style of show frequently selected 

Bias

   ○ netflix exclusives are featured ahead of most special
   ○ subscriptions

Biases

all software can be biased (unintentional/intentional):

   ○ causal versus sweaty
   ○ youtube kids
   ○ facebook vs instagram vs snapchat vs tik tok

questions to ask about bias

   ○ enhancing or intentionally excluding?
   ○ intentionally harmful/hateful?
   ○ receiving feedback from a wide variety of people?

5.4 College Board Notes - Crowdsourcing

Essential Knowledge:

     ○ widespread access to information and public data facilitates the identification of problems, development of solutions, and dissemination of results
     ○ science has been affected by using distributed and “citizen science” to solve scientific problems 
     ○ citizen science is a scientific research conducted in a whole or part by distributed individuals, many of whom may not be scientists, who contribute relevant data to research using their own computing devices

Public Data Sets

Kaggle

   ○ courses in visualization, machining learning, and more
   ○ competitions: cash prizes, swag, props
   ○ notebooks: code, data, notes

Google Public Datasets

   ○ free for the first terabyte
   ○ all in one package that uses BigQuery 

Data.gov

   ○ US government data
   ○ agriculture, energy, water, health

Your Local Government
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   ○ keeps them accountable
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Innovations Made Possible by Crowdsourcing

Spotify

   ○ collaborative playlists
   ○ algorithm
   ○ metadata write-in

Crowdfunding
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   ○ kickstarter
   ○ IndieGoGo
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Blockchain

   ○ cryptocurrency
   ○ other token → concert tickets