The Hidden Biases in Big Data
What we’re studying this semester is hot: “The Hidden Biases in Big Data,” in the Harvard Business Review yesterday.
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BlueKai Google Ad Preferences (and profile). Collusion (Firefox add-on) TrackMeNot TACO (Firefox add-on) Panopticlick Eyebrowse (and about) Evercookie Firesheep Preemptive Media’s SWIPE Osman Khan’s...
View ArticleWhat Big Data Can’t Do
Another new article on big data, this time by Gary Marcus at The New Yorker.
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BlueKai, which we discussed in class on Tuesday, was purchased by Facebook this week…
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From “Dataveillance and Counterveillance,” by Rita Raley: “The critical minefield one must negotiate here is structure by two tried-and-true narratives: one outlining systems of control and the other...
View ArticleFinal Project Conference Signup
Click here for the Doodle poll to sign up for a final project conference time-slot.
View ArticleLinks for Data Art Discussion
Data Visualizations about Art (which is also art) Glenn McDonald, Every Noise at Once (2013) Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg, hint.fm, various projects, but especially: Reproduction Artsy Data...
View ArticleData and Publics: Links for Thursday’s Class
The Data for Radicals blog. Data-based art related to civic and environmental issues and advocacy: STATIC, “Disappearing Pattern Tiles” (better image) Tiffany Holmes, Fresh 2.0 (video) S.W.A.M.P,...
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A note to former and future students, as well as visitors to this site: this site documents “Studies in Communication and Culture: Data,” a course conducted in the School of Literature, Media, and...
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