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Announcements!✦ Hackathons: 2/26 or 4/23
from 6-9pm, VAC 3rd fl. (must attend at least one) !
✦ Field trip 2/28 at 11am-1.30pm, need IDs !
✦ Time to check on the data: download this week’s ScraperWiki
senaiben.org
Data & Information (Recap)
✦ Information society !
✦ Data vs. information !
✦ Information-as-freedom vs. information-as-control
Big Data & Privacy (recap)✦ Ethical research
!
✦ Data sample and data access
✦ Firehose, gardenhose, spritzer
✦ API !
✦ Defining big data, defining privacy daily.captaindash.com
Searching the Engine / for Privacy (recap)
✦ Filter bubble, machine learning, privacy ✦ Team exercise on blog posts ✦ Begin lab ✦ Quiz
Representing Representation✦ 2-3 minutes: present you peer’s research based on her or his
representation post ✦ 1 minute rebuttal: add anything else you want to !
When you are all complete, discuss: ✦ What surprised (or not) you about what you heard? ✦ What trends do you see developing across your hashtag
theme? What is specific to you? ✦ What trends do you think could be explored further in your
peers’ hashtag analysis in the future? And in your own future analysis?
Next Class: Feb. 17✦ Today: going public 101 !
✦ Quiz: terms / concepts coming via email
!✦ Readings: Donovan, Grossman,
Odewahn — NOTE SYLLABUS CHANGE!
!✦ Next class/lab:
✦ publicness, proprietary ecologies ✦ t-tests & Beysian stats intro
Social Scientific Approach0. Identify an issue 1. Research question 2. Theoretical approach 3. Literature review 4. Methods 5. Analysis 6. Discussion 7. Conclusion
Digital Natives, a.k.a. Digitized American Youth
✦ 77% have a cell phone ✦ 95% have internet
access ✦ 80% with internet
access use social media ✦ Average of 3,417 texts
per month from the
Pew Internet & American Life Project 2011-2012 digitalfamiysummit.com
MyDigitalFootprint.org
mydigitalfoorprint.org
Opening Proprietary Ecologies
✦ 77% have a cell phone ✦ 95% have internet
access ✦ 80% with internet
access use social media ✦ Average of 3,417 texts
per month from the
Pew Internet & American Life Project 2011-2012
ScraperWiki SupportA clever and elegant solution to our problem of accessing Twitter data with a limited number of calls: !
1. Open ScraperWiki and view your table !
2. Download EVERY MONDAY !
3. Restart EVERY MONDAY (you will need to do this the first Monday of break too)
Interpretation is Inevitable & Essential
All researchers are interpreters of data. … Interpretation is the center of data analysis.
-boyd & Crawford (2012) !
Interpretation - the act of explaining meaning, i.e., transforming data into information and information into knowledge