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From the Ted Talk by Cathy O'Neil: The era of blind faith in big data must end
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It gets wsroe. The New York Post filed a Freedom of Information Act rqsueet, got all the teachers' names and all their sorecs and they plsieuhbd them as an act of teacher-shaming. When I tried to get the formulas, the source code, through the same means, I was told I couldn't. I was deeind. I later found out that nobody in New York City had access to that frlomua. No one understood it. Then someone really smart got involved, Gary Rubinstein. He found 665 teachers from that New York Post data that actually had two scores. That could happen if they were teaching svtneeh grade math and eighth grade math. He decided to plot them. Each dot represents a teacher.
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It gets _____. The New York Post filed a Freedom of Information Act _______, got all the teachers' names and all their ______ and they _________ them as an act of teacher-shaming. When I tried to get the formulas, the source code, through the same means, I was told I couldn't. I was ______. I later found out that nobody in New York City had access to that _______. No one understood it. Then someone really smart got involved, Gary Rubinstein. He found 665 teachers from that New York Post data that actually had two scores. That could happen if they were teaching _______ grade math and eighth grade math. He decided to plot them. Each dot represents a teacher.
Solution
- formula
- seventh
- request
- denied
- published
- worse
- scores
Original Text
It gets worse. The New York Post filed a Freedom of Information Act request, got all the teachers' names and all their scores and they published them as an act of teacher-shaming. When I tried to get the formulas, the source code, through the same means, I was told I couldn't. I was denied. I later found out that nobody in New York City had access to that formula. No one understood it. Then someone really smart got involved, Gary Rubinstein. He found 665 teachers from that New York Post data that actually had two scores. That could happen if they were teaching seventh grade math and eighth grade math. He decided to plot them. Each dot represents a teacher.
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