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Big Data Algorithms Can Discriminate, and It’s Not Clear What to Do About It It’s the kind of question many researchers are starting to ask as more and more industries use algorithms to make ...
Big Data Fades to the Algorithm Economy. ByGartner Inc., Former Contributor. Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aug 14, 2015, 11:58am EDT Aug 14, 2015, 11:58am EDT.
Big data was so yesterday; it's all about algorithms today, according to Peter Sondergaard, Gartner Research senior vice president. Speaking at Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2015 on Tuesday morning ...
Big data, she concludes, holds tremendous potential. Used thoughtfully, algorithms can actually strip human bias out of decision-making. But you have to be aware of the problem to correct for it.
The age of Big Data has generated new tools and ideas on an enormous scale, with applications spreading from marketing to Wall Street, human resources, college admissions, and insurance. At the ...
What Big Data analysts can learn from genetics It's not just anti-aircraft targeting algorithms that Big Data can harness. It can also learn from nature. Using genetic algorithms can be ...
Big data may hold a world of untapped potential, but what happens when your data set is bigger than your processing power can handle? A new algorithm that taps quantum computing may be able to help.
Big data and machine learning algorithms could increase risk of collusion: ACCC New provisions that have been added to the Competition and Consumer Act will enable the ACCC to address future ...
Big data algorithms can discriminate, and it’s not clear what to do about it Published: August 13, 2015 1:56am EDT. Jeremy Kun, University of Illinois Chicago. Author.
Big data algorithms can discriminate, and it’s not clear what to do about it “This program had absolutely nothing to do with race… but multi-variable equations.” ...