Designing a Socially-Critical Data Science Course
summary
Classroom exercises show how a fair coin‑betting game concentrates wealth: simulations produce 71% broke after repeated trades and allowing small loans recreates a student‑built subprime crisis; a Flint water assignment analyzes 270 household tests and finds 45 samples (16.6%) above the EPA action level (.015 mg/L) that students used to write the governor; practical resources include AI Fairness 360 for measuring parity/equal‑opportunity gaps and Data Feminism plus historical redlining maps to link algorithms to power and policy.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:27Act 1 Wealth Inequality
- 5:29Act 2 Data Analysis for Social Action
- 7:52Act 3 Resources
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