Webinar: Ethical Data Science for Social Impact
Event Details
- Date:
- Friday, 11 September 2020
- Time:
- 9:00 am - 11:00 am
- Room:
- Online - Zoom
- URL:
- https://issr.uq.edu.au/event/session/3605
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Miss Sophie Rutledge
- Phone:
- 61634
- Email:
- s.rutledge@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Humanities and Social Sciences
Event Description
- Full Description:
- How can researchers use data and machine learning to address some of the world’s most pressing social issues, while actively engaging with end users and impacted communities? UQ’s Institute for Social Science Research presents a workshop with Professor Rhema Vaithianathan, Professor of Social Data and Analytics at ISSR and Director of the Centre for Social Data Analytics (CSDA) at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in New Zealand.
Professor Vaithianathan will discuss work on a variety of international projects that use machine learning for social impact. Recent projects include the development and implementation of child welfare decision-support tools including the Allegheny Family Screening Tool (which has been featured in a range of media outlets including The New York Times), a project with the Chilean Government to use linked administrative data to protect families, RCTs of decision-support tools in Colorado with social workers, and a homelessness decision support tool for Allegheny County.
Following Rhema, Diana Benavides Prado (AUT) will discuss some of the challenges to deployment of machine learning in real-world, high-stakes settings and PhD students Ola Zytek (MIT) and Chris Mills (Princeton) will present work they are doing with Rhema on providing Larimer County, Colorado (USA) with an explainable decision support tool for frontline child protection workers. Gayani Tennakoon (ISSR) will share her research investigating whether Queensland pediatric intensive care data can be used to help clinicians identify patients at risk of poor long term educational outcomes.
Webinar details
Date: Friday, 11 September 2020
Time: 9:00am - 10:30am AEST
RSVP: By Thursday, 10 September 2020
Webinar link will be emailed to you after you register.
Enquiries: issr@uq.edu.au
This webinar is organised by the Institute for Social Science Research, as part of Social Sciences Week.
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