"I remember my first day at university, I was one of those overly friendly people who introduced myself to everyone in a lecture theatre of a thousand and never saw those people again. I remember sitting there in that first term, one of the lecturers did say 'just be aware. we are another species, we're an animal, but the data would suggest that we're not going to be as successful as the dinosaurs.'"
Tag: data science
The bias we swim in
However progressive we like to think we are, our society still has a massive problem with gender bias. Chatbots hold a mirror up to the data we train them on, and the society that created that data. And, of course, it's not just gender bias we can find in these chatbots.
Antony Green on Election Data Wrangling
Antony Green is well known as the ABC's Election Data Specialist, and he generously shared his time and expertise in a wide ranging conversation about the statistics of elections, how stats are misused, and what he wishes everyone knew about data. Turns out there's a vast amount of preparation that goes into those fascinating election night broadcasts.
Michael Franklin on Bioinformatics, ChatGPT, and Data Science in Health
Michael Franklin is a Software Engineer at the Centre for Population Genomics, and a former student of mine. This was a really interesting chat that roamed all over the place! Have a listen.
Machines are unbiased, and other bedtime stories
When we use machine learning for really important things like recruitment and health, we need to be immensely cautious and rationally sceptical of the results that we get.