Beyond Ethics: Considerations for Centering Equity-Minded Data Science

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

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Alexander, Nathan¹  Diaz Eaton, Carrie²  Shrout, Anelise H²  Tsinnajinnie, Belin³  Tsosie, Krystal⁴ 

[1] Morehouse College;Bates College;Santa Fe Community College;Native BioData Consortium, Vanderbilt University

关键词: data ethics;    equity;    data science;    education;    social justice;   

DOI  :  10.5642/jhummath.OCYS6929

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Claremont Center for the Mathematical Sciences

【 摘 要 】

In this paper, we utilize duoethnography - a research method in which practitioners discursively interrogate the relationships between culture, context, and the mechanisms which shape individual autobiographical experiences - to explore what may be beyond ethics in the context of data science. Although ethical frameworks have the ability to reflect cultural priorities, a singular view of ethics, as we explore, often fails to speak to the multiple and diverse priorities held both within and across institutional spaces. To that end, this paper explores multiple perspectives, epistemologies, and worldviews that can collectively push researchers towards considerations of a data science education that is equity-minded both in concept and practice. Through a set of dialogues which examine our positionalities, journeys, ethics, local cultures, and accountabilities, this paper explores the contextual realities rooted in the authors’ educational settings. These conversations focus on the humanity of our students, the communities from which we come from and serve, as well as the unintentional harms and possibilities associated with the development of data science programs across institutional types. We take a set of five core questions to examine how we made, and continue to make, sense of our diverse cultural perspectives on data science education and equity with/in relation to others’ realities. Broadly, this paper seeks to offer reflections on the related but differing functions of ethics and equity in data science education.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC-ND