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Category: Fairness

Auditing bias of recourse in classifiers (part II)

by Dimitris Sacharidis - Giorgos Giannopoulos - Loukas Kavouras on Sep 25, 2024 | Categories: Fairness

Introduction Fairness is a fundamental principle reflecting our innate sense of justice and equity. The essence of fairness lies in the equitable, unbiased and just treatment of all individuals. In our previous post (part I), we provided an introduction to the bias of recourse problem. In this post…

Auditing bias of recourse in classifiers (part I)

by Dimitris Sacharidis - Giorgos Giannopoulos - Loukas Kavouras on Jun 19, 2024 | Categories: Fairness

Introduction Fairness is a fundamental principle reflecting our innate sense of justice and equity. The essence of fairness lies in the equitable, unbiased and just treatment of all individuals. Nevertheless, translating this principle to specific rules, people, and systems can adhere to is highly…

Enabling Responsible Data Science in Practice

by Abolfazl Asudeh on Jan 20, 2021 | Categories: Fairness, Responsible Data Science

Introduction The 3rd decade of the 3rd millennium had a dramatic start, with a pandemic that impacted our lives all over the globe. This indicates extraordinary events and rapid changes, ranging from politics and climate change to our social life and work habits. Like it or not, we are getting used…