Harvard DSR
AI/ML
Why Your Spreadsheet Data Might Be Lying to You (And How to Fix It)
Imagine surveying people about their health. If everyone who takes vitamins also jogs, your data can't tell you which one actually helps — they're tangled together. Data equity asks: whose stories are missing entirely from the spreadsheet?
This means the datasets we use to train algorithms often encode invisible blindspots, and fixing that requires new ways to think about who's represented and how.
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