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With Plenary 14 (P14) scheduled to occur from October 23-25, the deadline for session submission is this Thursday, 27 June at 16:00 UTC.

Submissions for meeting sessions are open to working groups, interest groups, joint groups and birds of feather (BoF) meetings.

Please note, however, submissions are accepted from group chairs only. If you submit a session request for a group, please notify the other chairs of that group.

Dear IG members,
at RDA 13 in Philadelphia, the keynote by Julia Stoyanovich[1][2] outlined
key challenges for data science practice, which she framed as "responsible
data science is our new frontier". One aspect highlighted in there was the
need for standards in teaching such responsible data science, for which she
gave her course[3] as an example.
Following the keynote, at the IG's meeting[4], we have discussed the
importance of ethics curricula for data science and agreed to create a task

Dear P13 Session Chairs,

Dear Colleagues,
I would like to share a blog that discusses two implementations of data
science from the ethics perspective. One of them is the COMPAS system used
by judges across the United States to predict whether defendants awaiting
trial are likely to re-offend.
The other is the smart meter, an IoT application, that measures domestic
electricity consumption to gain network transparency. It enables consumers
to visualize and optimize their electricity consumption leading to better
power management and flexible billing.