S2 Week 5 - Ethical and legal issues in supervised learning & Software engineering for data science

Monday's Lecture

Note that this is the delayed S2 Week 4 Wednesday lecture on Logistic regression.

Wednesday's Lecture

We'll have a project Q&A and then we'll look at a case study that brings together Logistic Regression and legal and ethical issues of fairness in supervised learning.

• Slides
• Article about the case study on the UoE website: Equality law can disadvantage women in algorithmic credit decisions
• Andreeva, G. and Matuszyk, A. (2019), The law of equal opportunities or unintended consequences?: The effect of unisex risk assessment in consumer credit. J. R. Stat. Soc. A, 182: 1287-1311. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12494

Task

Preparation for the S2 Week 6 Workshop on inferential statistics exercises.