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1918 How crime rates during COVID compare to the Spanish Flu Thom Dunn
data science Explainer video: When does data become big data? Mark Frauenfelder
e-voting Help Wanted: a Data and Democracy specialist for for the UK Open Rights Group Cory Doctorow
lis Behold! The Library of Congress's audacious plan to digitize and share the nation's treasures Cory Doctorow
data science Comprehensive, open tutorial on using data analysis in social science research Cory Doctorow
probability Snakes and Ladders can be analyzed by converting it to a Markov Chain Cory Doctorow
bias What is bias in machine learning, when does it matter, and what can we do about it? Cory Doctorow
email automation How to replace yourself with a very small shell script Cory Doctorow
data science Ethics and AI: all models are wrong, some are useful, and some of those are good Cory Doctorow
checklists A checklist for figuring out whether your algorithm is a "weapon of math destruction" Cory Doctorow
change the bees you want to see in the world Let's teach programming as a tool for analyzing data to transform the world Cory Doctorow
data science Big Data Ethics: racially biased training data versus machine learning Cory Doctorow
alogrithmic transparency Weapons of Math Destruction: how Big Data threatens democracy Cory Doctorow