Offline biases in online platforms
Online booking platforms such as Airbnb or Uber present themselves as and strive to be inclusive, but there is an increasing amount of both anecdotal and scientific… Read more »
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Women and students of color are widely underrepresented in the majority of STEM fields. Most discussions take a ‘deficit’ approach to the problem, citing… Read more »
Using deep learning to “see” inside homes across the world
How much does someone's living room tell about how they live? Peeking into another person's life might be just part of natural human curiosity, but the answer… Read more »
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Twitter’s tampered samples: Limitations of big data sampling in social media
Social networks are widely used as sources of data in computational social science studies, and so it is of particular importance… Read more »
Cryptocurrency pump-and-dumps
A “pump-and-dump” scheme is a type of financial fraud that inflates the price of a commodity through the spreading of… Read more »
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