Class Journal Week 4
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?
- 6 Christina Dominguez's Response
- 6.1 1. What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- 6.2 2. The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- 6.3 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?
- 7 Ivy Macaraeg's Response
- 8 Mihir Samdarshi's Response
- 8.1 What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- 8.2 The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- 8.3 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?
- 9 Kaitlyn Nguyen's Response
- 10 Jonar Cowan's Responses
- 11 Michael Armas' Responses
David Ramirez'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?
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
Ntesfaio (talk) 12:40, 23 September 2019 (PDT)
Ntesfaio Final Individual Reflection
1. What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
I believe it comes down to organization of a great amount of informational. Databases hold a lot of information and can intersect them with different databases (Facebook and Spotify, Twitter, etc.). This allows for a clear expression of the information that needs to be presented.
2. The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
*What is this fraught relationship?
LinkedIn began combining user accounts meaning that the user would not have to remember their login from both LinkedIn Service and LinkedIn Learning. By saving the person's information, the platforms are able to personalize recommendations using data that was searched or inputed into the services. The fraught relationship is with public library users having to authenticate themselves using a LinkedIn profile, allowing for these people to be searched online. Users are giving their data over to LinkedIn which can be accessed by the greater public.
*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?
I believe with how much information is put into online services, such as LinkedIn having a person's name, email, sometimes phone number, we are exposing ourselves to the public and it can be a danger to our privacy. Especially when dealing with public profiles, anyone will my name can simply look me up. Although it is great in the sense of getting your information out to a potential job recruiter, expressing your qualifications, etc. it is important to be aware of the privacy rules that you are agreeing to when signing up for these services.
*What are the social justice issues involved?
The main social justice issue is the right of privacy and how much information is being given out to the public. This can be an issue for one's safety as a stranger who has access to their page can interact with personal information. The best way to regulate this is perhaps by limiting the details of one's information, maybe include an email address instead of a phone number or a P.O. box with LMU rather than a house address. Small changes like this can help protect one's information.
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?
I do believe I have a better understanding, however not a full understanding. I would assume the layout for each of these databases are different and would then have different subsections as well. The schema provided by the FDA gives a good representation of the relationship of each part of the FDA subsections (Submissions, Submission Property Products, Applications, Application Docs, etc.). The data information that each platform has (Spotify, Fitbit, etc. ) may be different but are also submerged together as these platforms show links to one another. This must also mean that a user's data is being shared within the platforms which leads back to the social justice issue that is being addressed in the blog post, privacy and user content. The FDA page, when exported to ACCESS 2016, was also able to be organized in rows, making it easier to follow along.
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 advantages of using something like Microsoft Access is that it is specifically used for large data. It makes it easier with organization and allows to look up specific IDs of certain things. Excel deals with just creating a table, but databases, like Access, can help in finding relationships between multiple databases.
- The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- What is this fraught relationship?
- The fraught relationship is between the code and data. This refers to a relationship that isn't wanted dealing with public libraries. An example that was used was between a university and LinkedIn. With LinkedIn, a user can create an account for that specific source, but it can be searched up by several companies. This ends up offering several suggestions and recommendations for certain things and it may be unwanted by the user.
- 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?
- Overall, I feel this is a bit too much and in the borderline of privacy terms. The user is creating an account for that specific site, but it makes sense that it will be placed in a public platform. The purpose of the site is to allow people to know who the user is and why they are a potential candidate. There should be a little bit more privacy limits in this site to make it a better "ease of use" for employment and universities.
- What are the social justice issues involved?
- Privacy of data is the biggest social justice issue that is occurring in this situation. As mentioned before, it wouldn't give "ease of use" knowing everyone in the public platform is knowing your situation. The website is made to look for employment and/or being researched by the employer. However, there should be limits to what can be seen unless verified as an employer (HR department).
- What is this fraught relationship?
- 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?
- Yes, there is a better understanding of the how the data mentioned in the article would look like stored in a computer. It can be seen that there would be field names for things and would contain primary keys for it. In addition, it will be stored based on sub-categories. In addition, relationship between certain things can be identified. Overall, large amounts of data wouldn't be an issue.
Aby Mesfin's Response
What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
Databases are better at managing large amounts of data that is subject to changes and meant to be stored for a long period of time. The variety of tools used in Microsoft Access offers users more flexibility and control over how they can manipulate the data as well.
The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
What is this fraught relationship?
The fraught relationship that the author refers to is the exchange that occurs between users and private companies of the user’s private information for accessibility of certain networks. Legally, the author argues that these companies should not have access to identifiable user data.
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
Personally, I am slightly unclear as to how much of the user's personal data these private companies have access to. As a user, I don’t really know what other pieces of major information that I offer these companies when I use their networks other than my name and email address, and so I don’t really view this as a major concern for me in my day to day life. This view, however, is predominantly because I have not seen nor heard of the major repercussions of this trade off between users and private companies.
What are the social justice issues involved?
Given that major private companies can have access to personal and confidential information about users, the trade off that the author mentions can devolve into a major violation of individuals' right to privacy if these companies use the power bestowed upon them irresponsibly. This issue is particularly prevalent given that most users don't bother to read the Terms and Conditions of the networks that they use, and so can be completely oblivious to what they have given up.
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?
Yes, this assignment has helped me visualize how big networks store large amounts of data that they provide.
Ymesfin (talk) 12:01, 25 September 2019 (PDT)
Christina Dominguez's Response
1. What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
When working with data consistently, it is best managed with Microsoft Access. Built to manage a database, it is user friendly in manipulating and sharing data. It provides an interface that works well with creating your own database of information instead of something like Microsoft Excel that is built for breaking down data through calculations.
2. The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
What is this fraught relationship?
With LinkedIn Learning now linked to LinkedIn accounts, libraries that use "many companies to provide users with information services" are subject to putting people's privacy at risk. A public space like a library has little choice but to subject library goers to their data and privacy being stripped away as they use platforms like LinkedIn Learning. This creates this relationship where a public space has to operate within a private company ultimately compromising privacy.
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?
I don't find that combining certain sites such as LinkedIn with LinkedIn Learning really ease my use of the internet. I personally do not have a problem with having to go through two different sites or log ins in order to get to what I am looking for. If it would mean keeping my information more secure, I would not mind not having this ease of use that private companies think they are giving me.
What are the social justice issues involved?
There are private companies that have more "control" in these situations and are able to take advantage of people and their information. If companies are going to phrase less privacy as "ease of use", they should also be more forward with the privacy aspects of what is being compromised. There is also the question of what rights everybody has to privacy and to what extent that extends to, especially with new evolving technology where this question is more undefined.
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?
From what I saw from the files on Microsoft Access and opening them, I am able to visualize what the data looks like. I was able to see how the tabular fashion of the text would create tables, but it is difficult to see the layout until it is used on a program such as Microsoft Access. I have learned how important user interface is in terms of being able to see data in a way that is interactive but organized on the screen. Although to me the data seems somewhat messy, it is a very specific language that the computer is able to use and operate.
Ivy Macaraeg's Response
- What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- The benefits of using Microsoft Access instead of Microsoft Excel is the management of data and the customizable aspects of organizing and accessing that data.
- The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- What is this fraught relationship?
- This fraught relationship is one in which users are unaware or indifferent to the use of their private information until it becomes an inconvenience to them. On the other hand, private companies state their terms in ways that a user may not fully comprehend, so there are many ways to access that customer’s data even if the customer did not know what they were agreeing to.
- 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?
- I believe that companies should be direct and clear with their terms and agreements, and they should ensure that customers understand their rights and limitations as users. Also, I think that users should be more vigilant when it comes to agreeing to share their private data and not trust anything that they don’t think is a reputable source. Of course, this is easier said than done for both parties.
- What are the social justice issues involved?
- The main social justice issues here are the right for privacy, as well as the right to know what data is being used and showed to others.
- What is this fraught relationship?
- 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?
- Yes. "Behind the scenes" of a website is so much more complicated than I had previously thought. The FDA drug database only contained about 40,000 drugs, and I can only imagine how much data is stored in Spotify or Twitter. Microsoft makes it so much easier to organize and customize that data. There is a lot that the user does not see.
Imacarae (talk) 19:21, 23 September 2019 (PDT) Imacarae's User Page
Mihir Samdarshi's Response
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?
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Kaitlyn Nguyen's Response
- 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?
Jonar Cowan's Responses
Comparison
What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- The advantages of using a database would include: data quality checking (let you know about inconsistent errors or something that is wrongly placed), data organizing and linking similar data types across different spreadsheets, memory formatting and user efficiency (compressing files saves space).
The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- What is this fraught relationship?
- The fraught relationship is is between our private information and how companies use and store our private information. It is fraught because of many corrupt companies and hackers that get a hold of our private information and use it for profit.
- 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?
- Personally, I believe that it is our choice to share our private information and at the same time we are forced into sharing our data with the world, due to how our society is structured. Our private data is not as private as you think and I feel that the concept of internet privacy does not exist.
- What are the social justice issues involved?
- The issues revolve around the sharing of data, who has access to our records, how it will be used, if it is safe and other issues such as profitting.
Reflection
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?
- Yes. Going through the database was very helpful because it informed me of how data moves and how the process works. It helped me conceptualize how accounts work and private data is stored. It also helps me understand what is necessary to make up an account and why it is important for certain fields to be correct.
Jcowan4 (talk) 14:14, 25 September 2019 (PDT)
Michael Armas' 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?
