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County-level Algorithmic Audit of Racial Bias in Twitter's Home Timeline
Luca Belli, Kyra Yee, Uthaipon Tantipongpipat +3
We report on the outcome of an audit of Twitter's Home Timeline ranking system. The goal of the audit was to determine if authors from some racial groups experience systematically…
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…
De-biasing "bias" measurement
Kristian Lum, Yunfeng Zhang, Amanda Bower
When a model's performance differs across socially or culturally relevant groups--like race, gender, or the intersections of many such groups--it is often called "biased." While mu…
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…
Flipping the Script on Criminal Justice Risk Assessment: An actuarial model for assessing the risk the federal sentencing system poses to defendants
Mikaela Meyer, Aaron Horowitz, Erica Marshall +1
In the criminal justice system, algorithmic risk assessment instruments are used to predict the risk a defendant poses to society; examples include the risk of recidivating or the…