Case Study: COMPAS in US Justice System
Learn about a case of data bias in the US Justice system, and how the resulting algorithms became biased.
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This is the first of about six case studies you will encounter in this course. In each study we'll walk through an example of how disasters in pipelines were discovered and then fixed or exposed. These case studies are meant to be an in-context exercise that rehashes previous material. While the specific set-up of the studies might not be critical, the takeaways certainly are.
Case study
Let’s dive into the first case study.
History
The COMPAS (Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions) dataset is an infamous datasets because oversight at the data level led to overtly racist decisions. It was an inflection point for many who realized algorithms and decisions are only as good as the data they rely on. Much of this case study will come from ...