demo_realDataExp.md

Usage of runRealDataExp

Import all functions in runRealDataExp

from runRealDataExp import *

Initialization

Step 1: Specify a folder that includes all the source csv file of real data sets

data_folder = "RealDatasets"

Step 2: Specify which value of sentitive attribute represents the protected group

sensi_att = 1

Step 3: Specify the file to output experiment results

output_fn = "Fairness_real_data"

Run fairness measure experiments of real data sets

main(data_folder,output_fn,sensi_att)

print "Finished experiments on real data sets"
print "Result stores in "+ output_fn+".csv"

Finishing computation of data: ProPublica_race
Finishing computation of data: ProPublica_sex
Finishing computation of data: GermanCredit_sex
Finishing computation of data: GermanCredit_age25
Finishing computation of data: GermanCredit_age35
Finished experiments on real data sets
Result stores in Fairness_real_data.csv