Shaping Futures
e-magazine of The Michael Dukakis Institute
Data versus Science: Contesting the Soul of Data-Science
The upcoming Spanish translation of “The Book of Why” was announced in July, 2020. It has been shown that the current data-fitting direction taken by “Data Science” is temporary, that the future of “Data Science” lies in causal data interpretation and that we should prepare ourselves for the backlash swing. Much has been said about how ill-prepared […]
Building a new economy after the COVID-19 pandemic
On July 1, 2020, at Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance, organized by the Boston Global...
For discussion at the Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference Protecting and Strengthening Democracy in the Aftermath of COVID-19
Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance (DADG) The Social Contract 2020, A New Social...
Intellectual Society – Thoughtful Civil Society at the United Nations Charter Day Roundtable, June 26, 2020
As a part of United Nations 2045 Initiative - UNleashed 2045: The United Nations at 100, the United...
The Seven Tools of Causal Inference, with Reflections on Machine Learning
The dramatic success in machine learning has led to an explosion of AI applications and increasing...
Telling and Re-telling History: The case for a whiggish account of the history of causation
Professor Judea Pearl wrote a note on the case for a whiggish account of the history of causation,...
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Simpson’s paradox in Covid-19 case fatality rates: a mediation analysis of age-related causal effects
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic originates from a virus, referred to as the 2019 novel...
Decision-theoretic foundations for statistical causality
In a recent paper Decision-theoretic foundations for statistical causality, Dr. Philip Dawid...