bowdoin: data driven socities 2014 - what is data 01/22/14
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Data Driven Societies Digital & Computational Studies Bowdoin College January 22, 2014 Professors Gieseking & Gaze Lecture Slides "Social Data Sciences; or, Is everything “data” and is “everything” data?"TRANSCRIPT
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Data Driven Societies: What is Data???Professors Gaze & Gieseking
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Data Today✦ Digitization ✦ Cheap storage ✦ Easy retrieval ✦ Global reach
✦ So...is everything data?✦ And is data everything?
http://pstrassmann.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-much-data-is-processed-in-servers.html
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Example: The Cost of Data
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The Cost of Data is Unequal
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Debating Data
✦ “Data analytics can giev us stable financial systems, functional governments, efficient and affordable health care, and more.” - Alex Pentland
✦ “Data is an abstraction of real life, and real life can be complicated, but if you gather enough context, you can at least put forth a solidarity effort to make sense of it.” - Nathan Yau (not his best writing)
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Social Scientific Approach0. Identify an issue 1. Research question 2. Theoretical approach3. Literature review4. Methods5. Analysis 6. Discussion 7. Conclusion
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