Data and Society
Guest Lecture: Hilary Mason
4/14/17
Announcements 4/14
• Class next Wednesday (April 19).
Come at 8:00 a.m.
• Final papers due today.
• Reading for next week (April 21):
“When fridges attack: the new
ethics for the Internet of Things,”
The Guardian,
https://www.theguardian.com/scien
ce/alexs-adventures-innumberland/2014/sep/08/whenfridges-attack-the-new-ethics-ofthe-internet-of-things
Wednesday Section
Friday
lecture
First Half of Class
Second Half of Class
Assignments
January 18 : NO class
January 20
L!: Class Intro + Logistics / Survey / Digital Data
in the 21st Century
Presentation Model /
Op-Ed Instructions
January 25: NO class
January 27
L2: Big data applications / Data and the
election; Data and Target; Discussion
4 Presentations
February 1: 6 presentations
February 3
L3: Data and Health / PDB, Precision Medicine;
Discussion
4 Presentations
February 8: NO class
February 10
L4: Data and Science / Earthquakes, LHC; Paper
Instructions
4 Presentations
Op-Ed Draft
Due
February 15: 6
presentations
February 17
L5: Data Cyberinfrastructure; Discussion
4 Presentations
Op-Ed Draft
Back
February 22: 6
presentations
February 24
L6: Data Stewardship and Data Preservation;
Discussion
4 presentations
Op-Ed Final
Due
March 1: NO class
March 3
NO class
March 8: 6 presentations
March 10
L7: Data Futures – Internet of Things;
Discussion
4 presentations
Paper Draft
Due
March 15: Spring Break
March 17
Spring Break
March 22: NO class
March 24
L8: Data rights and policy / U.S. and EU
4 presentations
Paper Draft
Back
March 29: 6 presentations
March 31
Op-Ed Pecha-Kucha
April 5: NO class
April 7
NO class
April 12: 5 presentations
April 14
Hilary Mason Guest Lecture
4 presentations
Final Paper
Due
April 19: 6 presentations
April 21
L9: Data Governance and Ethics; Discussion
4 presentations
April 26: No class
April 28
Paper Pecha-Kucha
Hilary Mason is cool
• Founder and CEO, Fast Forward
Labs
• Data Scientist in Residence, Accel
Partners
• Co-organizer and co-founder,
DataGotham, hackNY.org
• Formerly Chief Scientist at bitly
• Fortune 40 under 40 (2011), 100
most creative people in business
(Fast Company)
Break
Pecha Kucha – last day
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Kusuma
Harrison
Ylonka?
Xiaoyu
Mary
Lee
Presentations for April 14
• April 14 (data analysis)
– “Wider racial gap found in cervical cancer studies”, New York Times,
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/health/cervical-cancer-unitedstates-death-toll.html [Rachel K.]
– “Harvard/MIT report analyzes 4 years of MOOC data”, Campus Technology,
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/01/12/harvard-mit-reportanalyzes-4-years-of-mooc-data.aspx [Dan S.]
– “Reform Predictive Policing”, Nature, http://www.nature.com/news/reformpredictive-policing-1.21338 [Yue Y.]
– “Big Data is helping us see environmental problems in a whole new light”,
SingularityHub, https://singularityhub.com/2017/01/23/big-data-is-helpingus-see-environmental-problems-in-a-whole-new-light/ [Sayan M.]
Presentations for April 19
April 19 (data sharing)
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“'Big Data' study discovers earliest sign of Alzheimer's development”, Science Daily,
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160712130229.htm [Brandon T.]
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“Advantages of a truly open-access data sharing model”, New England Journal of Medicine,
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb1702054 [Jianing M.]
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“Peer-review activists push psychology journal towards open data”, Nature,
http://www.nature.com/news/peer-review-activists-push-psychology-journals-towards-open-data1.21549 [Andrea L.]
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“This student put 50 million stolen research articles on-line. And they’re free,” Washington Post,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/this-student-put-50-million-stolen-research-articles-online-andtheyre-free/2016/03/30/7714ffb4-eaf7-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html?utm_term=.c6d70b0131e7
[Quiyan L.]
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“Western Bulldogs stand their ground against GPS data sharing in the AFL”, The Age,
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/western-bulldogs-stand-their-ground-against-gps-data-sharingin-afl-20170323-gv4z9n.html [Andrew Z.]
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“Senate votes to let ISPs sell your data without consent”, NBC News, http://www.nbcnews.com/news/usnews/senate-votes-let-isps-sell-your-data-without-consent-n737921 [James N.]
Presentations for April 21
(data and ethics)
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“Yuval Noah Harari on big data, Google and the end of free will”, Financial Times,
https://www.ft.com/content/50bb4830-6a4c-11e6-ae5b-a7cc5dd5a28c [Grig A.]
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“Is your company using data ethically?”, Harvard Business Review,
https://hbr.org/2017/03/is-your-company-using-employee-data-ethically [Priyanka
K.]
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“Digital doubles bringing actors back to life”, CBS News,
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/digital-doubles-bringing-actors-back-to-life/
[Ningyuan H.]
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“Fake news and a 400 year old problem: we need to resolve the ‘post-truth’ crisis,”
The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/29/fake-newsecho-chamber-ethics-infosphere-internet-digital [Robert B.]