Data science and ethics

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Participation

The course "data science and ethics" (lecture and exercise) is part of the elite studies data science and not open to the public.

Dates & times

The lecture and exercises take place Thursday 14-16h ct in room 118, Amalienstr. 73a.

Lecture

• 02.05.19: Introduction & motivation
• 09.05.19: Information security I
• 16.05.19: no lecture due to summer school
• 23.05.19: Information security II
• 30.05.19: no lecture due to public holiday
• 06.06.19: Information security III & theoretical assignment

Exercises

• 13.06.19 Theoretical assignment due, discussion & beginning of exercises (mini-projects)
• Working in groups
• One (practical) assignment per group
• 04.07.19 Jour Fixe
• 22.07.19 projects due

Exam

• 25.07.19 Exam: presentations of results of mini-projects

Material

Any presentation material and assignment will be made available here. Please note that you need a username and password as given in the first lecture in order to access the slides.

Slides

• Presentation material / slideset (last update: 02.07.2019)

Assignments

• Interim exercise (due: 13.06.2019)
• Project proposals
• 1. How To Break Anonymity of the Netflix Prize Dataset (advanced!)
  Material:
  • Robust De-anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets by Arvind Narayanan and Vitaly Shmatikov
  • Netflix dataset (11b_Netflix_dataset.tgz)
• 2. The Netflix Prize
  Material:
  • http://www.netflixprize.com/rules.html
  • 11b_Netflix_dataset.tgz
• 3. Browser-Tracking
• 4. Homomorphic encryption: Game of Life
  Material:
  • Microsoft Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library (SEAL)
  • http://sealcrypto.codeplex.com/
• 5. Homomorphic encryption: Matrices
  Material:
  • Microsoft Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library (SEAL)
  • http://sealcrypto.codeplex.com/
  • 13b_MS-SEAL.h

Contact

For questions or inquiries please contact Nils gentschen Felde via email at felde@nm.ifi.lmu.de.