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A Hippocratic Oath for data science? We’ll settle for a little more data literacy

  • Written by Lewis Mitchell, Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, University of Adelaide
Bias in, bias out: many algorithms have inherent design problems.Vintage Tone/Shutterstock

I swear by Hypatia, by Lovelace, by Turing, by Fisher (and/or Bayes), and by all the statisticians and data scientists, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgement, this oath and this indenture.

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