Data Action: Using Data for Public Good

By Sarah Williams

Book Overview

How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression.

Big data can be used for good--from tracking disease to exposing human rights violations--and for bad--implementing surveillance and control. Data inevitably represents the ideologies of those who control its use; data analytics and algorithms too often exclude women, the poor, and ethnic groups. In Data Action, Sarah Williams provides a guide for working with data in more ethical and responsible ways. Too often data has been used--and manipulated--to make policy decisions without much stakeholder input. Williams outlines a method that emphasizes collaboration among data scientists, policy experts, data designers, and the public. This approach creates trust and co-ownership in the data by opening the process to those who know the issues best.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262044196
• ISBN13: 9780262044196
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.0" x 10.1"