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The wiki is a place for the community to reflect on the items in the checklist, reference related content, and show how it gets used in practice. If you wish to contribute to deon directly, please see the contributing instructions.

Note: The wiki is not strongly moderated and reflects only the views of contributors. The wiki is a place for content that is related to ethics that does not fit directly with inclusion in the core tool.

Real-world Examples of Use

In this section, please include references and links to use of the checklist within organizations including:

• How the checklist is customized
• How tooling is automated to include the checklist within projects
• How the checklist fits into the organizational workflow

References and Related Work

In this section, include links to related work on data and ethics that may be useful for people tackling the checklist items. These references can help people to understand what the checklist items mean in places where terminology may be unfamiliar.

Other checklists

• Of oaths and checklists - The article that sparked this idea, and where many of the items come from
• An Ethical Checklist for Data Scientists, DSSG at University of Chicago

General Articles and Posts

• "A Code of Ethics for Data Science", DJ Patil
• The series of O'Reilly Articles on Data Ethics
• "To work for society, data scientists need a hippocratic oath with teeth", WIRED
• "Tech’s Ethical ‘Dark Side’: Harvard, Stanford and Others Want to Address It", The New York Times

References

• UK Government Data Ethics Framework

Courses

• Ethics and Law in Data and Analytics on LinkedIn Learning
• Data Science Ethics on EdX
• Data Science Ethics on Coursera