Module 2 - Lesson 9: Liquid modernity, multiple jurisdictions, and assessing causality in randomised control trials

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ETHICS

Navigate competing ethical claims inherent to liquid societies.

Liquid Society / Modernity by Zygmunt Bauman; who are creators of sophisticated analytical systems responsible to in a global, fragmented and liquid society? Ethics is a framework for answering questions where everyone is “indignant”.
Example: sexual harassment training in Saudi Arabia; Union Carbide in Bhopal; cf Relativism, Subjectivism and Virtue Ethics.

CURATION

Resolve and integrate the technical implications for data curation in multiple jurisdictions.

Maintaining data, methods, evidence, and systems in compliance with multi-jurisdictional activity;
Example: EU hate-speech laws aimed at Twitter / Facebook. GDPR in EU, China Great Firewall.

ANALYSIS

Evaluate causality in analysis, and gain insight into genetic algorithms.

Causality, and intro to meta-analysis; intro to genetic algorithms;

PRESENTATION

Present proportions and decisions as probability trees.

Decisions trees, predictions, and tree diagrams.

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CASE STUDY

Randomised control trial; treatment / control data to assess causality;
Dataverse: use of low cost Android tablets to train community health workers.