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Random Isn't Always Fair: Candidate Set Imbalance and Exposure Inequality in Recommender Systems
Amanda Bower, Kristian Lum, Tomo Lazovich +2
Traditionally, recommender systems operate by returning a user a set of items, ranked in order of estimated relevance to that user. In recent years, methods relying on stochastic o…
Measuring and mitigating voting access disparities: a study of race and polling locations in Florida and North Carolina
Mohsen Abbasi, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Sorelle A. Friedler +2
Voter suppression and associated racial disparities in access to voting are long-standing civil rights concerns in the United States. Barriers to voting have taken many forms over…
Characterizing patterns in police stops by race in Minneapolis from 2016-2021
Tuviere Onookome-Okome, Jonah Gorondensky, Eric Rose +3
The murder of George Floyd centered Minneapolis, Minnesota, in conversations on racial injustice in the US. We leverage open data from the Minneapolis Police Department to analyze…
The 2021 RecSys Challenge Dataset: Fairness is not optional
Luca Belli, Alykhan Tejani, Frank Portman +10
After the success the RecSys 2020 Challenge, we are describing a novel and bigger dataset that was released in conjunction with the ACM RecSys Challenge 2021. This year's dataset i…
Closer than they appear: A Bayesian perspective on individual-level heterogeneity in risk assessment
Kristian Lum, David B. Dunson, James Johndrow
Risk assessment instruments are used across the criminal justice system to estimate the probability of some future behavior given covariates. The estimated probabilities are then u…
Estimating the number of SARS-CoV-2 infections and the impact of social distancing in the United States
James Johndrow, Kristian Lum, Maria Gargiulo +1
Understanding the number of individuals who have been infected with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, and the extent to which social distancing policies have been effective at limi…