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Datasheet for a dataset

A document, proposed in AI research (Gebru et al., 2018 onward), that ships with a dataset stating how it was collected, what it represents, its known gaps and biases, and its intended uses. Where a dataset you use came with a datasheet, it populates your provenance entry; its absence is itself a provenance gap.

Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 4 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Governance: Applied Mastery.

How each discipline defines it

The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.

AI Governance: Applied Mastery

A document, proposed in AI research (Gebru et al., 2018 onward), that ships with a dataset stating how it was collected, what it represents, its known gaps and biases, and its intended uses. Where a dataset you use came with a datasheet, it populates your provenance entry; its absence is itself a provenance gap.

AI Data Governance: The Data Chair

A standardized document that travels with a dataset describing its motivation, composition, collection process, and recommended uses, providing the semantic and provenance context a structural schema alone cannot capture; covered in full in Module 4. (see Topic 4.8)

AI Data Governance: The Data Chair

A structured documentation practice, proposed by Gebru et al. in 2018, describing a dataset's motivation, composition, collection process, labeling methodology, and recommended and discouraged uses, modeled on electronics industry component datasheets.

AI Governance: Applied Mastery

A structured document describing a dataset's origin, collection process, composition, and intended and inappropriate uses. Proposed by Gebru and colleagues (2018; Communications of the ACM, 2021). The data-side counterpart to a model card; your data provenance file is your datasheet. (see Topic 2.6)

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Terms it appears with

Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.