Link Roundup February 2020

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Jennifer Patiño

It’s Love Data Week this week! In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, we’re blogging about some of our most loved resources in and around UW -Madison. ICPSR is celebrating Love Data Week by encouraging everyone to adopt and share a dataset. You can follow the conversation and share your own love for data on Twitter using the hashtag #lovedata20.

Researcher, poet of code, and activist Joy Buolamwini was recently interviewed by NPR’s Code Switch about her findings at MIT Media Lab on bias in facial recognition algorithms that incorrectly classified Black women as male and her spoken word piece “AI, Ain’t I a Woman?” that drew attention to the issue.

Kent Emerson

DoIT has some recommendations for maintaining security while working remotely.

SciScore is a software developed at the University of California-San Diego that uses natural language processing tools to measure the reproducibility of research projects.