Politics and science have become increasingly intertwined. Salient scientific issues, such as climate change, evolution, and stem-cell…
We live in the digital century. Digital computing with electronic devices has only been available for a few decades, but during that time…
Past studies have found that racial and ethnic minorities are more likely than White drivers to be pulled over by the police for alleged…
Containing the COVID-19 pandemic will confer global benefits that greatly exceed the costs but effective solutions require the…
Many topics social scientists study are sensitive in nature. Although we know some people may be reluctant to respond to sensitive…
In domains ranging from computer vision to natural language processing, machine learning models have been shown to exhibit stark…
A pandemic, like other disasters, changes how systems work. In order to support research on how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the dynamics…
We describe and apply three empirical approaches to identify superfluous police activity, unjustified racially disparate impacts, and…
In the dominant paradigm for designing equitable machine learning systems, one works to ensure that model predictions satisfy various…
In June 2021, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the digital transformation consultancy Public Digital…