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8 papers
Measurement as governance in and for responsible AI
Abigail Z. Jacobs
Measurement of social phenomena is everywhere, unavoidably, in sociotechnical systems. This is not (only) an academic point: Fairness-related harms emerge when there is a mismatch…
Internet-human infrastructures: Lessons from Havana's StreetNet
Abigail Z. Jacobs, Michaelanne Dye
We propose a mixed-methods approach to understanding the human infrastructure underlying StreetNet (SNET), a distributed, community-run intranet that serves as the primary 'Interne…
Measurement and Fairness
Abigail Z. Jacobs, Hanna Wallach
We propose measurement modeling from the quantitative social sciences as a framework for understanding fairness in computational systems. Computational systems often involve unobse…
Assembly in populations of social networks
Abigail Z. Jacobs
In-depth studies of sociotechnical systems are largely limited to single instances. Network surveys are expensive, and platforms vary in important ways, from interface design, to s…
Discovering heterogeneous subpopulations for fine-grained analysis of opioid use and opioid use disorders
Jen J. Gong, Abigail Z. Jacobs, Toby E. Stuart +1
The opioid epidemic in the United States claims over 40,000 lives per year, and it is estimated that well over two million Americans have an opioid use disorder. Over-prescription…
Untangling the roles of parasites in food webs with generative network models
Abigail Z. Jacobs, Jennifer A. Dunne, Cristopher Moore +1
Food webs represent the set of consumer-resource interactions among a set of species that co-occur in a habitat, but most food web studies have omitted parasites and their interact…