Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics MOOC

Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics is a MOOC designed by the University of California UC Davis. This course provides you with background information and hands-on experience with big data and AI, the two main forces behind the computational science revolution. Thanks to this basic course you will get a first glance of these two fundamental topics and you will learn how to start working with IBM Watson.

Context of the MOOC

Machine learning is the engine that allows us to draw amazing new insights from massive volumes of data, while data serves as the fuel. Using algorithms to learn more about ourselves naturally raises ethical concerns because a significant portion of this data is about ourselves. 

For this reason, the final part of this course will address ideas about research ethics and about some of the old and new lines computational social scientists have to keep in mind. You will engage in practical laboratories where you will utilise IBM Watson's artificial intelligence to decipher people's personalities from their digital text trails and instruct two Google teachable machines yourself to learn about the potential and constraints of machine learning.

What you will learn?

You will learn how to:

• Define and discuss big data opportunities and limitations
• Work with IBM Watson and analyse a personality through Natural Language Programming (NLP)
• Examine how AI is used through case studies
• Examine and discuss the roles ethics play in AI and big data