Anna-Livia Gomart

2 videos · 2 events · 2018–2019 · 43 min of video

Talks

The 750,000-line long pull request: crafting a more resilient open source community

DjangoCon Europe 2019 · April 20, 2019

OpenFisca turns fiscal and benefits law into Python, combining a reusable technical core with country-specific packages used for simulations and public services. When a contributor submitted a 750,000-line pull request to update France’s tax system, the team used existing relationships to understand her working context,…

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It's not a bug, it's a bias

DjangoCon Europe 2018 · May 23, 2018

Anna-Livia Gomart argues that software is never fully neutral: algorithms encode their creators’ assumptions about what is normal, while user behaviour and training data can introduce further bias. She illustrates this with Siri’s original failure to provide abortion-clinic information, validation rules that reject unusual names,…

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DjangoCon Europe 2018 2019