Big Data in Time-Critical Circumstances: The Philippines Relief Effort as a Case Study for Journalists and Responders
This seminar will look at issues raised by a Big Data approach for both aid workers and journalists covering rapidly moving events.
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MIT Building 8, Room 119 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United States
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Nick Seaver: “What Do People Do All Day?”
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDrawing on years of fieldwork with the developers of algorithmic music recommenders, Seaver describes how people make sense of new kinds of jobs.
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Knowledge’s Allure: Surveillance and Uncertainty
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSun-ha Hong on how "big" data and surveillance are not just about privacy and security but also redistribution of authority, credibility and responsibility.
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Authoritarian and Democratic Data Science in an Experimenting Society
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMIT's Nathan Matias asks, how will the role of data science in democracy be transformed as software expands the public's ability to conduct our own experiments at scale?