no code implementations • 30 May 2022 • Mohsen Abbasi, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Sorelle A. Friedler, Kristian Lum, Calvin Barrett
In this paper, we quantify access to polling locations, developing a methodology for the calibrated measurement of racial disparities in polling location "load" and distance to polling locations.
no code implementations • 19 Jun 2020 • Mohsen Abbasi, Aditya Bhaskara, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
A core principle in most clustering problems is that a cluster center should be representative of the cluster it represents, by being "close" to the points associated with it.
no code implementations • 28 Jan 2019 • Mohsen Abbasi, Sorelle A. Friedler, Carlos Scheidegger, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
While harms of allocation have been increasingly studied as part of the subfield of algorithmic fairness, harms of representation have received considerably less attention.