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Data & SocietyThis primer outlines the central role that data plays in both medicine and health insurance, and how it enables advances and creates new challenges. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & Society"In this episode, I talk with [D&S fellow] Ingrid Burrington, a researcher and artist using technology and mapping to explore interesting, often unseen places. I met Ingrid at an Open Knowledge Festival 2014 fringe event in... Read on Data & SocietyOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyBig social data, such as that produced by Facebook and Twitter, have the potential to transform the social sciences and lead to advances in understanding human behavior. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyChris Wiggins discusses how his earlier research on applications of machine learning in biology has influenced his work on advancing the field of data science by improving ties between industry and academia. Read moreOctober 2014 -
op-ed
Nieman LabToday, press ethics are intertwined with platform design ethics, and press freedom is shared with software designers. The people at Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard, Pulse and elsewhere have a new and significant role in how news c... Read on Nieman LabOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyAnoush Tatevossian, Alex Rutherford, and Mila Romanoff — multi-disciplinary team from UN Global Pulse walk through the data science, privacy, and partnership considerations which go into conducting an applied research project utilizing big data (such as social media, mobile phone data, etc.) for global development topics. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer explains how a growing reliance on automated systems, algorithms, and existing networks systematically benefits some at the expense of others -- often without employers even recognizing the biases of such mechanisms. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer provides an overview of the Arts and Crafts Movement and DIY culture and connects them to the recent rise of 3D printing as techno-utopianism while investigating labor practices and structural inequalities in the movements. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer raises critical questions about what fair labor looks like in a networked world and discusses how existing mechanisms of labor protection do not address these contemporary work scenarios. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer examines networked technologies and analyzes how they are used for widespread workplace surveillance in a variety of employment sectors. Read moreOctober 2014