Weapons of Math Destruction (with Cathy O'Neil)
Cathy and Hugo discuss the current lack of fairness in artificial intelligence, how societal biases are perpetuated by algorithms and how both transparency and auditability of algorithms will be necessary for a fairer future.
About Cathy O'Neil
Cathy O’Neil earned a Ph.D. in math from Harvard, was a postdoc at the MIT math department, and a professor at Barnard College where she published a number of research papers in arithmetic algebraic geometry. She then switched over to the private sector, working as a quant for the hedge fund D.E. Shaw in the middle of the credit crisis, and then for RiskMetrics, a risk software company that assesses risk for the holdings of hedge funds and banks. She left finance in 2011 and started working as a data scientist in the New York start-up scene, building models that predicted people’s purchases and clicks. She wrote Doing Data Science in 2013 and launched the Lede Program in Data Journalism at Columbia in 2014. She is a regular contributor to Bloomberg View and wrote the book Weapons of Math Destruction: how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy. She recently founded ORCAA, an algorithmic auditing company.
Links from the show
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FROM THE INTERVIEW
- Cathy on Twitter
- Cathy's Blog Mathbabe
- Weapons of Math Destruction: How big data increases inequality and threatens democracy by Cathy O'Neil
- Cathy's Opinion Column, Bloomberg
- Doing Data Science (By Cathy O'Neil and Rachel Schutt)
- Cathy O'Neil & Hanna Gunn's "Ethical Matrix" paper coming soon.
FROM THE SEGMENTS
Data Science Best Practices (with Heather Nolis ~20:30)
- Using docker to deploy an R plumber API (By Jonathan Nolis and Heather Nolis)
- Enterprise Web Services with Neural Networks Using R and TensorFlow (By Jonathan Nolis and Heather Nolis)
Data Science Best Practices (with Ben Skrainka ~39:35)
- The Clean Coder Blog (By Robert C. Martin)
- James Shore’s blog post on Red, Green, Refactor
- Jeff Knupp’s Python Unittesting tutorial (general unit tests in Python)
- John Myles White’s Intro to Unit Testing in R
Original music and sounds by The Sticks.