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Links for Designing a Socially Critical Data Science Class

Brian A. Danielak Ph.D.

1. "In for a Penny" Econophysics activity
2. [Flint Water Lead Contamination Data][flint]
3. [AI 360 Bias Analysis Tool][bias]
4. [Data Feminism][feminism] (Free to read as an e-book if you scroll down)

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import pandas as pd
from siuba import *

my_data = {
    'name': ["Abigail Adams"],
    'birth': ["1744-11-22"],
    'death': ["1818-10-28"]
}

df = pd.DataFrame(my_data)

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Course Learning Objectives

Modeling begins before you ever touch a computer

• How do I understand the system of interest?
• Within that system, what phenomena am I interested in?
• What entities do I think are relevant for my model?
• How might I qualitatively describe entity relationships in the model? (Example: predators hunt prey, so predators should have some contribution to the reduction of prey.)
• What simplifications do I know I’m making?
• How can I express expectations of/predictions about the model? (E.g., with one wolf and 10 million rabbits, I don’t think there will be much of a predator effect. Or: here’s a sketch of the path I think this orbiting body might take. Or: based on my experiences with kerbal space program, I figure the object would take a path like this.)

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If you can read this, thank a teacher.

if (you_can_read_this) {
  thank(a_teacher)
}

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• Be Present
• Be Kind
• Take Space and Make Space (be mindful of how much time/space you're taking up and be willing to yield to others)
• For morning review, put your questions up the night before
• Listen without interrupting
• It's ok to talk about friction we might have working with each other
• Confirming that we understand each other by rephrasing. ("What I'm hearing is...")
• No Question Is a Ridiculous Question
• Every mistake can teach you something. Treat mistakes as growth and learning opportunities.
• This is also true of unintenionally harmful communication

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Object.keys(undefined)

undefined + {}

Object.keys(undefined + {})

(undefined + {})[Object.keys(undefined + {})[23]]

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Engineering Ethics and Workplace Norms(?)

What do you hope to get out of this?

• Hear Brian call 1902GH his favorite cohort
• What are bad ethics? Why do we we even need to know engineering ethics?
• How Facebook got to where it was?
  • How do we prevent those kinds of things from happening?
  • How do we see it in a work?
  • What is our role as engineers in a company when it comes to that?

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    DefaultList newList = new DefaultListModel();
        
    ListModel oldList = (ListModel) myList.getModel();
    // Copy over the old list
    for (int i = 0; i < oldList.getSize(); i++) {;
        newList.add(i, oldList.getElementAt(i));
    }
    newList.add(0, "Krang");

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Thinking about learning objectives as a process of modeling

1 - Modeling begins before you ever touch a computer

• How do I understand the system of interest?
• Within that system, what phenomena am I interested in?
• What entities do I think are relevant for my model?
• How might I qualitatively describe entity relationships in the model? (Example: predators hunt prey, so predators should have some contribution to the reduction of prey.)
• What simplifications do I know I’m making?
• How can I express expectations of/predictions about the model? (E.g., with one wolf and 10 million rabbits, I don’t think there will be much of a predator effect. Or: here’s a sketch of the path I think this orbiting body might take. Or: based on my experiences with kerbal space program, I figure the object would take a path like this.)

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<h1 id="thinking-about-learning-objectives-as-a-process-of-modeling">Thinking about learning objectives as a process of modeling</h1>

<h2 id="1---modeling-begins-before-you-ever-touch-a-computer">1 - Modeling begins before you ever touch a computer</h2>

<ul>
  <li>How do I understand the system of interest?</li>
  <li>Within that system, what phenomena am I interested in?</li>
  <li>What entities do I think are relevant for my model?</li>
  <li>How might I qualitatively describe entity relationships in the model? (Example: predators hunt prey, so predators should have some contribution to the reduction of prey.)</li>
  <li>What simplifications do I <em>know</em> I’m making?</li>