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Datameer.Data ethics is a subject our industry has largely ignored, avoided and failed to acknowledge as important. This neglect is almost certainly caused by fear
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Examining public data from 279 courses from the most popular MOOC providers Udacity, Coursera, edX , researcher Katy Jordan finds that the average cours
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