Article & paper: With Big Data Comes Big Responsibilities

[Glen Newton]

With Big Data Comes Big Responsibilities: Huge data sets are a
powerful new tool for researchers, but a new paper says it's easy to
be overconfident about what can be learned from them.
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38775/

Referring to this paper: Boyd, Danah and Crawford, Kate, Six
Provocations for Big Data (September 21, 2011). A Decade in Internet
Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society, September
2011. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1926431 or
http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1926431

This is an excellent paper, with some good caveats / best practices in
the area of Big Data. Six provocations:
 1. Automating Research Changes the Definition of Knowledge.
 2. Claims to Objectivity and Accuracy are Misleading
 3. Bigger Data are Not Always Better Data
 4. Not All Data Are Equivalent
 5. Just Because it is Accessible Doesn’t Make it Ethical
 6. Limited Access to Big Data Creates New Digital Divides


-Glen Newton

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[Tracey P. Lauriault]

Thanks for this glen!

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Glen Newton <[hidden email]> wrote:

With Big Data Comes Big Responsibilities: Huge data sets are a
powerful new tool for researchers, but a new paper says it's easy to
be overconfident about what can be learned from them.
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38775/

Referring to this paper: Boyd, Danah and Crawford, Kate, Six
Provocations for Big Data (September 21, 2011). A Decade in Internet
Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society, September
2011. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1926431 or
http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1926431

This is an excellent paper, with some good caveats / best practices in
the area of Big Data. Six provocations:
 1. Automating Research Changes the Definition of Knowledge.
 2. Claims to Objectivity and Accuracy are Misleading
 3. Bigger Data are Not Always Better Data
 4. Not All Data Are Equivalent
 5. Just Because it is Accessible Doesn’t Make it Ethical
 6. Limited Access to Big Data Creates New Digital Divides


-Glen Newton

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http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/
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