Class Journal Week 6

Lauren Magee

1. What was your initial, gut reaction to the “Stranger Visions” project?
   • My initial reaction was that this project was absolutely amazing and innovative! Then I started to wonder whether my hair had been sequenced, but then I realized I had never been to New York, so that was impossible. I suppose it does have a "creepy" factor to it as well, but I think the fact that our technology is so advanced to create a human face based off a strand of hair should be applauded and not criticized.
2. What kinds of data are stored in the biological databases used by “Stranger Visions,” and how are these used?
3. What connections or similarities, if any, do you see between the tools and methods used by “Stranger Visions” and the tools and methods that you have been exposed to in this course?
4. Has your view of biological data, and what can be done with it, changed since the beginning of the semester? Why or why not?