Class Journal Week 6

Hailey Ivanson

• What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?

While Excel allows for multiple pages of sheets to be created, Access allows for these sheets to relate to one another all in one database (hence relational database).

• Which part of the tutorial made the most sense to you?

It was intuitive that we are able to import Excel sheets into Access. It's well-thought-out and makes starting a database seem like much less of a daunting task.

• Which part of the tutorial do you feel least confident about?

I am so bad with terms: I have it right in front of me right now, but I will never think of the word for "navigation panel" or things like that when they are brought up. Maybe with more use I'll get used to it.

• What would you like to know more about?

I know there's a website option on Access that we didn't go into depth in the tutorial on... But I'm wondering how one might apply forms in the real world when linking a non-Access website to a database. For example, through what do you send a form to collect data from people, such as in the Landon Hotel case? Could it be linked to the Hotel's website?

• The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
• What is this fraught relationship?

The blog post continues, highlighting the requirement of having a LinkedIn account, along with all of its required terms, conditions, and privacy agreements, to use the learning database that used to be Lynda.com. Now, unlike before, LinkedIn owns its users learning data, which is not necessarily desirable, especially for what used to be a more anonymous/deidentified process.

• 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 feel like at this point it has become so normal to me; I am the product with free websites and services. Perhaps I should care more than I do, but I don't think it is harmful to me... yet.

• What are the social justice issues involved?

The Bloomberg article talked about when all this data turns into what is referred to as "Big Data." The paper that I published on the ethics of AI and perioperative medicine went into how this data can be used against people, especially marginalized groups. The example that we went over in the paper is on how clinical decision support systems can be used by care teams and insurance alike, and how if race consciousness and anti-racism are not specifically built in, then these programs can worsen the already present structural racism, ignoring or obscuring the impact that racism and social determinants have on health for minority patients, leading to worse care and coverage. This can be extended to many other scenarios that involve "big data," data harvesting, and other data collection that we are sometimes nearly forced to "consent" to on a daily basis.

Katie Miller

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. Which part of the tutorial made the most sense to you?
3. Which part of the tutorial do you feel least confident about?
4. What would you like to know more about?
5. 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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