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Biological Science for Social Justice: Democratizing Data Science

Biological Science for Social Justice: Democratizing Data Science

This deck links social justice to the democratization of data science through the lens of reproducibility in human genomic research.

Rayna M Harris

May 02, 2019
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  1. Course: Biological
    Science for Social Justice
    Topic: Open the Gates! Democratizing Data Science

    By: Rayna Harris @raynamharris

    Rebecca Calisi @BeccaCalisi

    With thanks to Titus Brown @ctitusbrown

    Greg Wilson @gvwilson
    Suggested reading:

    Reproducible Research in Computational Science by Roger D. Peng @rdpeng

    https://science.sciencemag.org/content/334/6060/1226

    https://sci-hub.tw/https://science.sciencemag.org/content/334/6060/1226
    May 2, 2019

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  2. Pre/post-class question on
    Canvas
    Your 6th cousin Arianna’s DNA was tested as part of a
    National Geographic funded research project

    to sample the genomes of 100 human populations. Later,
    the data generated by her DNA is used to support

    a scientific claim

    and implicate you in a crime .

    How would you evaluate the data and the results?

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  3. Dr. Rayna Harris
    Scientist

    Educator

    Community Builder

    Translator

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  4. Social justice
    Equitable distribution of
    privileges within a society
    • 


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  5. Democratizing
    Data Science
    Social justice
    Equitable distribution of
    privileges within a society
    • 

    1. Introduce a democratic
    system to data science.

    2. Make data science
    accessible to everyone.

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  6. Reproducibility
    Democratizing
    Data Science
    Social justice
    Equitable distribution of
    privileges within a society
    The minimum standard for
    judging scientific claims when
    full independent replication of
    a study is not possible
    • 

    1. Introduce a democratic
    system to data science.

    2. Make data science
    accessible to everyone.

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  7. What developments have lead to the rise
    of reproducible data science research?

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  8. Reproducibility
    Democratizing
    Data Science
    Social justice
    Equitable distribution of
    privileges within a society
    The minimum standard for
    judging scientific claims when
    full independent replication of
    a study is not possible
    • 

    1. Introduce a democratic
    system to data science.

    2. Make data science
    accessible to everyone.
    Methodological
    advances
    Compute
    power
    Public
    data sets

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  9. How can we make data
    science more equitable?

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  10. Reproducibility
    Democratizing
    Data Science
    Social justice
    Equitable distribution of
    privileges within a society
    The minimum standard for
    judging scientific claims when
    full independent replication of
    a study is not possible
    • 

    1. Introduce a democratic
    system to data science.

    2. Make data science
    accessible to everyone.
    Community
    governance
    Open access
    education
    Methodological
    advances
    Compute
    power
    Public
    data sets

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  11. What cultural and technological
    privileges influence reproducibility?

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  12. Reproducibility
    Democratizing
    Data Science
    Social justice
    Equitable distribution of
    privileges within a society
    The minimum standard for
    judging scientific claims when
    full independent replication of
    a study is not possible
    • 

    1. Introduce a democratic
    system to data science.

    2. Make data science
    accessible to everyone.
    Community
    governance
    Open access
    education
    Cultural
    barriers
    Technology
    barriers
    Methodological
    advances
    Compute
    power
    Public
    data sets

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