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A Friendly Guide to Data Science: Everything You Should Know About the Hottest Field in Tech

Name: A Friendly Guide to Data Science: Everything You Should Know About the Hottest Field in Tech
Author: Kelly P. Vincent
ISBN: 9798868811692

by Kelly P. Vincent

June 2025

Beginner

901 pages

19h 58m

English

Apress

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K. P. VincentA Friendly Guide to Data ScienceFriendly Guides to Technologyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-1169-2_9

9. What’s Fair and Right: Ethical Considerations

Kelly P. Vincent¹

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Renton, WA, USA

Introduction

Data science is an exciting field, and it’s easy to get caught up in thinking about what you can find in the data and coming up with helpful predictions or an easy way to label something that used to be done by hand. But anything that can have a positive impact can also have unintended consequences, which may be negative, so it’s important to anticipate those and make sure the work should still be done and, if so, how. Imagining and understanding ...

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