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Introduction to Data Ethics

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406 reviews
Updated 05/2025
Explore data ethics with this comprehensive introductory course, covering principles, AI ethics, and practical skills to ensure responsible data use.
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Course Description

Explore the Basics of Data Ethics

This introductory course on data ethics will provide learners with the essentials of data ethics concepts and what they mean in practice- be it in business, R&D, or for societal benefit. The course covers the principles of data ethics, its relationship with AI ethics, and its characteristics across the different stages of the data lifecycle.

Learn the Art of Data Ethics Principles

The course highlights how data ethics can promote fairness, reduce biases, and promote social good while addressing data protection, security, trust, and transparency. Learners will gain practical skills, including drafting informed consent forms and identifying the ethical impacts of data operations. By the end of the course, learners will have an essential understanding of data ethics. The course will equip them to identify and improve data ethics-related situations professionally and personally.

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Understanding Data Ethics

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Data Ethics: Now and Forever

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  • Rebecca
    about 4 hours

  • Andrea
    about 4 hours

    Excelente

  • Thomas
    about 16 hours

    Guter Kurs, der zum Nachdenken anregt

  • gary
    about 18 hours

    Excellent introduction to Data Ethics. Provides a good balance of knowledge upskilling and practical exercises to test learning.

  • Tomas
    about 23 hours

  • Sheena
    1 day

Rebecca

"Excelente"

Andrea

"Guter Kurs, der zum Nachdenken anregt"

Thomas

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