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The Indigenous Perspective Praxis: Holistic Data Science Workflow Designs for Building Community Partnerships, Education and Citizen Engagement.
Featured Speaker : Dr. Joseph Robertson
When: September 23rd, 4:30-5:30pm
Where: Whitley Auditorium
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Description:The Indigenous Perspective Praxis is Mato Ohitika Analytics LLC’s most recent work in bringing theory to practice using data science workflows to solve community challenges. This interdisciplinary concept connects to Dr. Robertson’s doctoral work in using the Data Sovereignty Initiative framework to educate communities on the ethical examination of how to bridge science and culture.Dr. Robertson will present key topics on data sovereignty, tribal governance, data and artificial intelligence ethics and will demonstrate how to design and build ethical systems using data science.

Biography: Dr. Joseph Robertson is an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation and is the founder and Chief Data Scientist of Mato Ohitika Analytics LLC (MOA).Dr. Robertson’s commitment to speak with students, faculty, community members, and grass roots organizations about his work is part of Mato Ohitika Analytics LLC’s broader educational and citizen science initiatives to bring the Indigenous Perspective praxis’s holistic data science workflow designs to underrepresented communities and to provide equitable access through building academic, cultural, and community partnerships.Dr. Robertson holds a PhD in Computational Science and Statistics and a Master of Science in Statistics from South Dakota State University, and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Colorado State University.

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