Kelly Vincent is a data scientist at Hill’s Pet Nutrition with a prior background in software engineering. They are very interested in ethics in data science and other tech areas, as well as aspects of human behavior, especially in the context of behavioral economics. Kelly is a doctoral student in Technology at Purdue University, focusing on tech ethics. They write essays and articles about these topics on Medium at medium.com/@kvbooks. Find out about the other things they do at kellyvincent.me. You can also find them on Instagram and Pinterest at @kvbooks as well as @kelly_datascientist at TikTok. Find some of their reading recommendations on the Reading Recs page.
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