Business Researcher Finds Bias in Disease-Tracking Algorithms on Social Media

Social media has become the latest method to monitor the spread of diseases such as influenza or coronavirus. However, machine learning algorithms used to train and classify tweets have an inherent bias because they do not account for how minority groups potentially communicate health information. These are the findings made by UTSA researchers in one … Continue reading Business Researcher Finds Bias in Disease-Tracking Algorithms on Social Media