AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Datasets, Bias, and Fairness

Where bias enters a model through its training data, what makes a dataset inclusive and balanced, and why the word bias means two different things on this exam.

Intermediate 22 minutes 5 Learning Objectives
  1. Identify the ways bias enters a model through its training data
  2. Describe the characteristics of a good dataset: inclusivity, diversity, curated sources, and balance
  3. Distinguish statistical bias and variance from societal bias, and connect them to underfitting and overfitting
  4. Explain why competing definitions of fairness cannot all be satisfied at once
  5. Select dataset-stage mitigations for a described bias problem