Computational Social Science: Building Transparency in Machine Learning

Monday, February 20, 2017: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Room 304 (Hynes Convention Center)
Hanna Wallach, Microsoft Research, New York, NY
Hanna Wallach will speak on the opportunities, challenges, and implications involved in developing and using machine learning methods to analyse real-world data about society. How do we draw responsible, fair conclusions from granular, social data? How can we make these intelligible?