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Real-world ethics: Data and analytics

Real-world ethics: Data and analytics

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Real-world ethics: Data and analytics

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- The American author, Mark Twain said, "Data is like garbage. You better know what you're going to do with it before you collect it." While he was striving for humor, he was correct, but he missed something. You need to understand what you will do with data and what you won't do with it. Let's look at a scenario to explore the ethics of managing data and analytics. Lisa is managing a program for her rapidly growing organization. Her company purchased two other companies about a year ago. They have finally gotten around to consolidating data from her company and the two purchase companies into a single data repository. Lisa is focusing on data related to benefits, particularly retirement funds. Each company had different policies for these benefits and Lisa's company decided to create one policy for all employees. That policy has been agreed and shared with all the employees. So it's Lisa's job to apply the new benefits policy as she merges the data into one platform. As Lisa's team…

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