In our Data Hazards workshop, participants will be given the opportunity to discuss the ethical decisions and implications associated with working on data science projects. To guide this discussion, we will provide an introduction to our Data Hazards labelling system (https://datahazards.com/), which gives researchers a shared vocabulary for ethical concerns in data science projects.

This workshop will bring together data scientists from diverse backgrounds to give their input on a variety of projects. We will give a brief example of a data science project working with healthcare data and medical scoring systems within the UK’s National Health Service.  and split off into small groups to discuss what potential data hazards might apply to such a project and how we could proactively seek to mitigate these hazards. Our hope is that participants can then go on and use the Data Hazards resources in their own work and facilitate their own discussions within various research groups.