EQUATE & Machine Learning Blog

Category: Social Science

My Model is Unfair, Do People Even Care? Visual Design Affects Trust and Perceived Bias in Machine Learning 

Posted: October 16, 2023 Under: EQUATE Fairness Social Science By Aimen Gaba, Zhanna Kaufman, Jason Cheung, Marie Shvakel, Kyle Wm Hall, Yuriy Brun, and Cindy Xiong Bearfield

Full Abstract  Machine learning technology has become ubiquitous, but, unfortunately, often exhibits bias. As a consequence, disparate stakeholders need to interact with and make informed decisions about using machine learning models in everyday systems. Visualization technology can support stakeholders in understanding and evaluating trade-offs between, for example, accuracy and fairness of models. This paper aims … Continue reading "My Model is Unfair, Do People Even Care? Visual Design Affects Trust and Perceived Bias in Machine Learning "

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ClioQuery: Interactive Query-Oriented Text Analytics for Comprehensive Investigation of Historical News Archives

Posted: July 17, 2022 Under: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning EQUATE Natural Language Processing Social Science Transparency By Abram Handler, Narges Mahyar, Brendan O’Connor

Historians and archivists often find and analyze the occurrences of query words in newspaper archives, to help answer fundamental questions about society. But much work in text analytics focuses on helping people investigate other textual units, such as events, clusters, ranked documents, entity relationships, or thematic hierarchies. Informed by a study into the needs of … Continue reading "ClioQuery: Interactive Query-Oriented Text Analytics for Comprehensive Investigation of Historical News Archives"

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CommunityClick-Virtual: Supporting Inclusive Participation during Online Public Engagement  Events

Posted: May 26, 2022 Under: Digital Civics EQUATE Social Science Visual Analytics By Narges Mahyar, Ali Sarvghad, Mahmood Jasim

CommunityClick-Virtual: Supporting Inclusive Participation during Online Public Engagement  Events Public engagement is paramount for participatory democracy. For decades, traditional methods, such as town halls, public forums, and workshops have remained the modus operandi for public engagement. The goal of these engagements is to ensure inclusivity of public participation so that decision-makers can engage, exchange thoughts, … Continue reading "CommunityClick-Virtual: Supporting Inclusive Participation during Online Public Engagement  Events"

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Computing Must Pay Attention to Outcomes to Achieve Equity

Posted: April 07, 2022 Under: Fairness Machine Learning ML for Healthcare Privacy Social Science Transparency By Michelle Trim

There is a push right now across ACM that is gathering momentum. This push is for increased attention to cultural competency [12] in the training of computing professionals. In fact, the CS202X: ACM/IEEE-CS/AAAI Computer Science Curricula Taskforce [4] has a knowledge area subcommittee devoted to SEP or Society, Ethics, and Professionalism [5]. This subcommittee is … Continue reading "Computing Must Pay Attention to Outcomes to Achieve Equity"

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How to train models that do not propagate discrimination?

Posted: April 07, 2022 Under: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Core ML EQUATE Fairness Machine Learning Social Science Transparency By Przemyslaw Grabowicz, Nicholas Perello, Aarshee Mishra

Powerful machine learning models can automatize decisions in critical areas of human lives, such as criminal pre-trial detention and hiring. These models are often trained on large datasets of historical decisions. However, past discriminatory human behavior may have tainted these decisions and datasets with discimination. Therefore, it is imperative to ask how can we ensure … Continue reading "How to train models that do not propagate discrimination?"

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