Causal Inference with Elizabeth Silver

Elizabeth Silver
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-silver-53967b63/

Causal Inference: Tools & Commercial Applications

Causal inference techniques are generating interest right now, but it's often unclear when and how to apply them in industry. I'll start by introducing the basic concepts & formal tools of causal inference, and provide a set of example applications in advertising, medicine, user behaviour modelling, and more. In the second half of the talk I'll give a case study on algorithmic fairness in finance. I'll show how causal tools can be used to de-bias a discriminatory loan-granting algorithm, even if the training data has bias "baked in".