Transparency, Trust, and Proprietary Predictive Analytics

harlan@harris.name (Harlan Harris) — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post was originally published on Medium

A particularly good talk at Strata NY last year was by Brett Goldstein, former CIO of Chicago, who talked about accountability and transparency in predictive models that affect people’s lives. This struck a strong chord with me, so I wanted to take some time to write down some thoughts. (And a rather longer time to publish those thoughts…) I’m sure others’ have thought about this more and have better takes on this — please comment and provide links!

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harlan@harris.name (Harlan Harris) — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

I, Harlan D. Harris, hereby commit to the neveragain.tech pledge. Please stand with me and hold me to it.

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