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#'''Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?''' | #'''Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?''' | ||
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| + | ===What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?=== | ||
| + | ===The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."=== | ||
| + | ====What is this fraught relationship?==== | ||
| + | ====How do you feel about it? I.e., where do you stand on the trade-off between the "ease of use" you receive as a user and giving up your private data to companies who will use it to turn a profit==== | ||
| + | ====What are the social justice issues involved?==== | ||
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Revision as of 18:13, 22 September 2019
Contents
- 1 David Ramirez's Responses
- 2 John Nimmers-Minor's Responses
- 3 Naomi Tesfaiohannes's Responses
- 4 Iliana Crespin's Responses
- 5 Aby Mesfin's Response
- 5.1 What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- 5.2 The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- 5.3 Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
David Ramirez's Responses
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- Week 1
- Week 2
- Week 3
- Week 4
- Week 5
- Week 6
- Week 7
- Week 8
- Week 9
- Week 10
- Week 11
- Week 12/13
- Week 14
- Week 15
1. What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
2. The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- What is this fraught relationship?
- How do you feel about it? I.e., where do you stand on the trade-off between the "ease of use" you receive as a user and giving up your private data to companies who will use it to turn a profit?
- What are the social justice issues involved?
3. Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
John Nimmers-Minor's Responses
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1. What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
A. Databases are adventagous because they can allow you to find data based on IDs of the data that you're looking for. Besides this, they are much more powerful and can hold substaintially more data in a structured format than a spreadsheet can, making them more appropriate for the massive amounts of data needed for companies like Spotify or Amazon.
2. The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- What is this fraught relationship?
A. The fraught, or strained/undesirable, relationship presented in the blog post was between libraries, specifically university libraries, (and in this case, LMU) and the professional network company, LinkedIn.
- How do you feel about it? I.e., where do you stand on the trade-off between the "ease of use" you receive as a user and giving up your private data to companies who will use it to turn a profit?
A. I feel that being forced to give up personal/learning data in order to access a database is in a very grey area of social jusitce and ethics because it is unknown what the user data is used for. This opens up possibilities of misuse of said data, even if that wasn't the original intention of the company. Having your data "hostage" as the author wrote is worrying, specifically because libraries are confidential entities, and so I stand with the author, however, it is a very tricky and complex problem to handle.
- What are the social justice issues involved?
A. Privacy of data and equity are two issues involved in this particular case.
3. Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
Naomi Tesfaiohannes's Responses
1. What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
2. The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- What is this fraught relationship?
- How do you feel about it? I.e., where do you stand on the trade-off between the "ease of use" you receive as a user and giving up your private data to companies who will use it to turn a profit?
- What are the social justice issues involved?
3. Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
Iliana Crespin's Responses
- What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- What is this fraught relationship?
- How do you feel about it? I.e., where do you stand on the trade-off between the "ease of use" you receive as a user and giving up your private data to companies who will use it to turn a profit?
- What are the social justice issues involved?
- Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
