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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
University of Michigan
This course provided a framework to analyze ethical concerns in the field of Data Science. It helped you answer questions such as who owns data, how do we value privacy, how to receive informed consent and what it means to be fair.
4 weeks, 4 hours per week
H.V. Jagadish
Bernard A Galler Collegiate Professor
University of Michigan
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Utilize the framework provided in the course to analyze concerns related to data science ethics.
- Explore the broader impact of the data science field on modern society and the principles of fairness, accountability and transparency.
- Examine the need for voluntary disclosure when leveraging metadata to inform basic algorithms and/or complex artificial intelligence systems.
- Learn best practices for responsible data management.
- Gain an understanding of the significance of the Fair Information Practices Principles Act and the laws concerning the "right to be forgotten."
Syllabus
- This course will establish a basic foundation in the notion of simple utilitarian ethics and introduce the Principle of Informed Consent
- This course will examine data privacy and anonymity
- This course will discuss data validity and algorithmic fairness
- This course will cover societal consequences of Data Science that we should be concerned about even if there are no issues with fairness, validity, anonymity, privacy, ownership or human subjects research
Issued on 24th March 2022
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