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10 Ways to be a Better Team Player :: Women on Business

Women on Business

The most important asset you will ever have is the ability to positively influence people. This is a guaranteed winner, if you can walk away from the experience with a loss, but still leave each team member feeling that you really valued them, you have won. Related posts: How did you choose YOUR ‘A’ team?

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Auditing Algorithms for Bias

Harvard Business Review

What if, he asked, we could erase our brains so we had no memory of who we were — our race, our income level, our profession, anything that may influence our opinion? However objective we may intend our technology to be, it is ultimately influenced by the people who build it and the data that feeds it.

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What Every Manager Should Know About Machine Learning

Harvard Business Review

Rating the credit risk of loan applicants. Another effect, “shrinkage”, is when the algorithm reduces each feature’s influence, so that the predictions aren’t overly reliant on any one feature in case it turns out to be noisy. Forecasting long-term customer loyalty.

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