Class Journal Week 4
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- 1 David Ramirez's Responses
- 2 John Nimmers-Minor's Responses
- 2.1 What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- 2.2 The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- 2.3 Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
- 3 Naomi Tesfaiohannes's Responses
- 4 Iliana Crespin's Responses
- 5 Aby Mesfin's Response
- 5.1 What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- 5.2 The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- 5.3 Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
- 6 Christina Dominguez's Response
- 6.1 1. What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- 6.2 2. The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- 6.3 3. Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
- 7 Ivy Macaraeg's Response
- 8 Mihir Samdarshi's Response
- 8.1 What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- 8.2 The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- 8.3 Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
- 9 Kaitlyn Nguyen's Response
- 10 Jonar Cowan's Responses
- 11 Michael Armas' Responses
- 11.1 What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- 11.2 The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- 11.3 Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
- 12 Emma Young's Response
- 13 DeLisa Madere's Response
- 14 Marcus Avila's Response
- 14.1 What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- 14.2 The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- 14.3 Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
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David Ramirez's Responses
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1. What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- Using a database like Access allows one to store "big data", which, according to "What Is Code?", storing such large amounts of data values is critical because nowadays, computers are everywhere, which will cause a great increase in generating data. Excel cannot support such a massive database, which is why Access is needed to store such large amounts of data.
2. The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- What is this fraught relationship?
- For places like libraries and memory institutes, the thought of dealing with data, privacy, and how private companies will operate in public spaces was tied with much stress and anxiety. This is because people need some time to get used to change especially with the mechanisms with how data should now be stored and saved.
- How do you feel about it? I.e., where do you stand on the trade-off between the "ease of use" you receive as a user and giving up your private data to companies who will use it to turn a profit?
- I believe that the trade-off is fair only because the ease of use will allow people who are looking to connect with others who work in the interested field, and having that ease of use may create more opportunity for the hiring of jobs. If this ability was not as accessible to the general public knowledge, then job titles or positions will only be available to those who are educated enough to find ways in connecting with other workers in the professional field.
- What are the social justice issues involved?
- The greatest issue is obviously the right to privacy, especially since companies are using the private information of users to gain their own profit. The other issue is no presence of equity, or giving support to those who are most in need. Having a complex website like LinkedIn may be confusing to those who have not been shown or taught how to use the database of professor contacts efficiently or correctly.
3. Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
- I do have a better understanding of how data is stored in databases because I was able to see that from one file folder, a database can organize informational data into categories like Contacts, Emails, or music files. Having an organized database allows one to identify and find data much quicker. For example, in the FDA data table, it was very easy to find specific drugs since they already had unique IDs for each row.
Dramir36 (talk) 21:30, 25 September 2019 (PDT)
John Nimmers-Minor's Responses
Biological Databases
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What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
A. Databases are adventagous because they can allow you to find data based on IDs of the data that you're looking for. Besides this, they are much more powerful and can hold substaintially more data in a structured format than a spreadsheet can, making them more appropriate for the massive amounts of data needed for companies like Spotify or Amazon.
The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- What is this fraught relationship?
A. The fraught, or strained/undesirable, relationship presented in the blog post was between libraries, specifically university libraries, (and in this case, LMU) and the professional network company, LinkedIn.
- How do you feel about it? I.e., where do you stand on the trade-off between the "ease of use" you receive as a user and giving up your private data to companies who will use it to turn a profit?
A. I feel that being forced to give up personal/learning data in order to access a database is in a very grey area of social jusitce and ethics because it is unknown what the user data is used for. This opens up possibilities of misuse of said data, even if that wasn't the original intention of the company. Having your data "hostage" as the author wrote is worrying, specifically because libraries are confidential entities, and so I stand with the author, however, it is a very tricky and complex problem to handle.
- What are the social justice issues involved?
A. Privacy of data and equity are two issues involved in this particular case.
Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
A. This assignment certainly improved my understanding of how data is collected and stored for large companies and corporations. Even doing this at a very small level gave a really good glimpse of how companies function at certain levels.
Jnimmers (talk) 19:59, 25 September 2019 (PDT)
Naomi Tesfaiohannes's Responses
Ntesfaio (talk) 12:40, 23 September 2019 (PDT)
Ntesfaio Final Individual Reflection
1. What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
I believe it comes down to organization of a great amount of informational. Databases hold a lot of information and can intersect them with different databases (Facebook and Spotify, Twitter, etc.). This allows for a clear expression of the information that needs to be presented.
2. The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
*What is this fraught relationship?
LinkedIn began combining user accounts meaning that the user would not have to remember their login from both LinkedIn Service and LinkedIn Learning. By saving the person's information, the platforms are able to personalize recommendations using data that was searched or inputed into the services. The fraught relationship is with public library users having to authenticate themselves using a LinkedIn profile, allowing for these people to be searched online. Users are giving their data over to LinkedIn which can be accessed by the greater public.
*How do you feel about it? I.e., where do you stand on the trade-off between the "ease of use" you receive as a user and giving up your private data to companies who will use it to turn a profit?
I believe with how much information is put into online services, such as LinkedIn having a person's name, email, sometimes phone number, we are exposing ourselves to the public and it can be a danger to our privacy. Especially when dealing with public profiles, anyone will my name can simply look me up. Although it is great in the sense of getting your information out to a potential job recruiter, expressing your qualifications, etc. it is important to be aware of the privacy rules that you are agreeing to when signing up for these services.
*What are the social justice issues involved?
The main social justice issue is the right of privacy and how much information is being given out to the public. This can be an issue for one's safety as a stranger who has access to their page can interact with personal information. The best way to regulate this is perhaps by limiting the details of one's information, maybe include an email address instead of a phone number or a P.O. box with LMU rather than a house address. Small changes like this can help protect one's information.
3. Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
I do believe I have a better understanding, however not a full understanding. I would assume the layout for each of these databases are different and would then have different subsections as well. The schema provided by the FDA gives a good representation of the relationship of each part of the FDA subsections (Submissions, Submission Property Products, Applications, Application Docs, etc.). The data information that each platform has (Spotify, Fitbit, etc. ) may be different but are also submerged together as these platforms show links to one another. This must also mean that a user's data is being shared within the platforms which leads back to the social justice issue that is being addressed in the blog post, privacy and user content. The FDA page, when exported to ACCESS 2016, was also able to be organized in rows, making it easier to follow along.
Iliana Crespin's Responses
- What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- The advantages of using something like Microsoft Access is that it is specifically used for large data. It makes it easier with organization and allows to look up specific IDs of certain things. Excel deals with just creating a table, but databases, like Access, can help in finding relationships between multiple databases.
- The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- What is this fraught relationship?
- The fraught relationship is between the code and data. This refers to a relationship that isn't wanted dealing with public libraries. An example that was used was between a university and LinkedIn. With LinkedIn, a user can create an account for that specific source, but it can be searched up by several companies. This ends up offering several suggestions and recommendations for certain things and it may be unwanted by the user.
- How do you feel about it? I.e., where do you stand on the trade-off between the "ease of use" you receive as a user and giving up your private data to companies who will use it to turn a profit?
- Overall, I feel this is a bit too much and in the borderline of privacy terms. The user is creating an account for that specific site, but it makes sense that it will be placed in a public platform. The purpose of the site is to allow people to know who the user is and why they are a potential candidate. There should be a little bit more privacy limits in this site to make it a better "ease of use" for employment and universities.
- What are the social justice issues involved?
- Privacy of data is the biggest social justice issue that is occurring in this situation. As mentioned before, it wouldn't give "ease of use" knowing everyone in the public platform is knowing your situation. The website is made to look for employment and/or being researched by the employer. However, there should be limits to what can be seen unless verified as an employer (HR department).
- What is this fraught relationship?
- Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
- Yes, there is a better understanding of the how the data mentioned in the article would look like stored in a computer. It can be seen that there would be field names for things and would contain primary keys for it. In addition, it will be stored based on sub-categories. In addition, relationship between certain things can be identified. Overall, large amounts of data wouldn't be an issue.
Aby Mesfin's Response
What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
Databases are better at managing large amounts of data that is subject to changes and meant to be stored for a long period of time. The variety of tools used in Microsoft Access offers users more flexibility and control over how they can manipulate the data as well.
The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
What is this fraught relationship?
The fraught relationship that the author refers to is the exchange that occurs between users and private companies of the user’s private information for accessibility of certain networks. Legally, the author argues that these companies should not have access to identifiable user data.
How do you feel about it? I.e., where do you stand on the trade-off between the "ease of use" you receive as a user and giving up your private data to companies who will use it to turn a profit
Personally, I am slightly unclear as to how much of the user's personal data these private companies have access to. As a user, I don’t really know what other pieces of major information that I offer these companies when I use their networks other than my name and email address, and so I don’t really view this as a major concern for me in my day to day life. This view, however, is predominantly because I have not seen nor heard of the major repercussions of this trade off between users and private companies.
What are the social justice issues involved?
Given that major private companies can have access to personal and confidential information about users, the trade off that the author mentions can devolve into a major violation of individuals' right to privacy if these companies use the power bestowed upon them irresponsibly. This issue is particularly prevalent given that most users don't bother to read the Terms and Conditions of the networks that they use, and so can be completely oblivious to what they have given up.
Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
Yes, this assignment has helped me visualize how big networks store large amounts of data that they provide.
Ymesfin (talk) 12:01, 25 September 2019 (PDT)
Christina Dominguez's Response
1. What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
When working with data consistently, it is best managed with Microsoft Access. Built to manage a database, it is user friendly in manipulating and sharing data. It provides an interface that works well with creating your own database of information instead of something like Microsoft Excel that is built for breaking down data through calculations.
2. The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
What is this fraught relationship?
With LinkedIn Learning now linked to LinkedIn accounts, libraries that use "many companies to provide users with information services" are subject to putting people's privacy at risk. A public space like a library has little choice but to subject library goers to their data and privacy being stripped away as they use platforms like LinkedIn Learning. This creates this relationship where a public space has to operate within a private company ultimately compromising privacy.
How do you feel about it? I.e., where do you stand on the trade-off between the "ease of use" you receive as a user and giving up your private data to companies who will use it to turn a profit?
I don't find that combining certain sites such as LinkedIn with LinkedIn Learning really ease my use of the internet. I personally do not have a problem with having to go through two different sites or log ins in order to get to what I am looking for. If it would mean keeping my information more secure, I would not mind not having this ease of use that private companies think they are giving me.
What are the social justice issues involved?
There are private companies that have more "control" in these situations and are able to take advantage of people and their information. If companies are going to phrase less privacy as "ease of use", they should also be more forward with the privacy aspects of what is being compromised. There is also the question of what rights everybody has to privacy and to what extent that extends to, especially with new evolving technology where this question is more undefined.
3. Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
From what I saw from the files on Microsoft Access and opening them, I am able to visualize what the data looks like. I was able to see how the tabular fashion of the text would create tables, but it is difficult to see the layout until it is used on a program such as Microsoft Access. I have learned how important user interface is in terms of being able to see data in a way that is interactive but organized on the screen. Although to me the data seems somewhat messy, it is a very specific language that the computer is able to use and operate.
Cdomin12 (talk) 22:48, 25 September 2019 (PDT)
Ivy Macaraeg's Response
- What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- The benefits of using Microsoft Access instead of Microsoft Excel is the management of data and the customizable aspects of organizing and accessing that data.
- The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- What is this fraught relationship?
- - This fraught relationship is one in which users are unaware or indifferent to the use of their private information until it becomes an inconvenience to them. On the other hand, private companies state their terms in ways that a user may not fully comprehend, so there are many ways to access that customer’s data even if the customer did not know what they were agreeing to.
- How do you feel about it? I.e., where do you stand on the trade-off between the "ease of use" you receive as a user and giving up your private data to companies who will use it to turn a profit?
- - I believe that companies should be direct and clear with their terms and agreements, and they should ensure that customers understand their rights and limitations as users. Also, I think that users should be more vigilant when it comes to agreeing to share their private data and not trust anything that they don’t think is a reputable source. Of course, this is easier said than done for both parties.
- What are the social justice issues involved?
- - The main social justice issues here are the right for privacy, as well as the right to know what data is being used and showed to others.
- Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
- Yes. "Behind the scenes" of a website is so much more complicated than I had previously thought. The FDA drug database only contained about 40,000 drugs, and I can only imagine how much data is stored in Spotify or Twitter. Microsoft makes it so much easier to organize and customize that data. There is a lot that the user does not see.
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Mihir Samdarshi's Response
What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
Databases tend to be faster to use, much more manageable, highly reliable, and easily scalable. Furthermore, they offer various customization tools, and provide an easy programmatic interface via which to connect external tools. They also allow for easy, fast, and customizable querying for near-instant access to data. Finally, databases have the ability for tables to have relation to each other.
The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
What is this fraught relationship?
I believe that this fraught relationship is what Connor-Gaten describes. Our data is being managed by two separate entities which have different philosophies when it comes to protecting user privacy and data rights. Libraries want to protect our privacy, whereas LinkedIn wants to retain it for their own (nefarious?) purposes. Libraries do not want to provide user identities to LinkedIn, but are forced to because of the valuable resource that it offers.
How do you feel about it? I.e., where do you stand on the trade-off between the "ease of use" you receive as a user and giving up your private data to companies who will use it to turn a profit?
I am torn in between. I would like to have access to those services, but want controls to enable how much information I give each of those companies. I am most concerned about behavior tracking software that is able to specifically identify me from the information that it has collected. I believe that this is never safe from anyone with bad intentions, and thus would not want it to exist at all.
What are the social justice issues involved?
I believe that internet privacy is in itself a social justice issue. Lack of internet access is disadvantageous to people, and the issue of privacy ties directly into internet access. Many companies today are trying to distribute their services and devices to disadvantaged people around the world, in exchange for unfettered access to their data (*cough* Facebook).
Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
Yes, I am familiar with what it would look like. For example in Spotify, user data would be one table in the database, a list of all playlists another, and a list of all songs in another. They would be linked relationally. Thus, when sending an API request to a website in Javascript, the JSON Object that a programmer receives is essentially the output of a query to a database.
Msamdars (talk) 20:59, 25 September 2019 (PDT)
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Kaitlyn Nguyen's Response
- What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- One of the advantages of using the database program, Microsoft Access, as opposed to Microsoft Excel, is the ability to store long-term and larger data. It also saves the file prior to inputting data, which is beneficial in cases where the computer has trouble-shooting errors.
- The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- What is this fraught relationship?
- This "fraught relationship" is primarily about the privacy that it taken away from the user when merging their LinkedIn account with LinkedIn Learning. While on the outside it seems much easier for the user to have only one account and password to memorize, accepting this means doesn't mean private data is confidential - instead, much of the data received from the user can be pubicly searched and shared.
- How do you feel about it? I.e., where do you stand on the trade-off between the "ease of use" you receive as a user and giving up your private data to companies who will use it to turn a profit?
- I'm not sure where to stand. Prior to taking an ethics class, I thought my only choice when I downloaded certain applications on my phone made me "accept" these policies and conditions to share my data (ie. Uber), but I realized it isn't forced and users are capable of denying to share their data. However, once the user accepts to "giving up [their] private data, it is nearly impossible to turn back.
- What are the social justice issues involved?
- Since much of this data is searchable on the "world-wide-web," anything posted online, is instantly public. In many ways, this can harm the individual user. For example, if you accidentally posted something that you instantly regretted and deleted it - it would be too late to erase that record. This can be used against the individual.
- What is this fraught relationship?
- Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
- Based off of the reading, I have a better idea of how data looks while stored on a computer. While coding is a lot more complex than this, in section 5.2 of the reading, it clarified SQL for me and how simple the inputted code looks like and can be read.
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Jonar Cowan's Responses
Comparison
What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- The advantages of using a database would include: data quality checking (let you know about inconsistent errors or something that is wrongly placed), data organizing and linking similar data types across different spreadsheets, memory formatting and user efficiency (compressing files saves space).
The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- What is this fraught relationship?
- The fraught relationship is is between our private information and how companies use and store our private information. It is fraught because of many corrupt companies and hackers that get a hold of our private information and use it for profit.
- How do you feel about it? I.e., where do you stand on the trade-off between the "ease of use" you receive as a user and giving up your private data to companies who will use it to turn a profit?
- Personally, I believe that it is our choice to share our private information and at the same time we are forced into sharing our data with the world, due to how our society is structured. Our private data is not as private as you think and I feel that the concept of internet privacy does not exist.
- What are the social justice issues involved?
- The issues revolve around the sharing of data, who has access to our records, how it will be used, if it is safe and other issues such as profitting.
Reflection
Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
- Yes. Going through the database was very helpful because it informed me of how data moves and how the process works. It helped me conceptualize how accounts work and private data is stored. It also helps me understand what is necessary to make up an account and why it is important for certain fields to be correct.
Jcowan4 (talk) 14:14, 25 September 2019 (PDT)
Michael Armas' Responses
What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- Microsoft Access is far better as a database tool than Excel. Access allows users to neatly organize data, and make relationships between data sets and their fields. Additionally, the ability to search via keywords on an type of ID is very characteristic of a true database (searching a query), rather than just searching through an excel spreadsheet. The ability to store large amounts of data and link them in an organized fashion makes Access preferred as a database software above Excel
The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
What is this fraught relationship
- The fraught relationship mentioned in Aisha Conner-Gaten's blog refers to how the merger of Lynda.com and Linkedin Learning and how things have changed for the worst. For example, Lynda.com was more similar to a library with the type of authentication that was used to access the data base. However, with the merger, the user must agree to the Linkedin user policies, and the privacy associated with the Lynda.com database is now compromised. Many library associations have spoken about Linkedin's Privacy policies, which has has only deepened the fraught relationship.
How do you feel about it? I.e., where do you stand on the trade-off between the "ease of use" you receive as a user and giving up your private data to companies who will use it to turn a profit?
- I completely understand the severity of keeping one's privacy. For me personally, I don't mind sharing somewhat personal information through Linkedin. If it were more serious, let's say, my home address or social security number, then I would have a problem. If a company profits off of what sites I use, or what I talk about, I feel as if I'm not too offended, unless I start to receive spam phone calls, text messages, or emails.
What are the social justice issues involved?
- The justice issues deal with the fairness of websites using a user's data. There may be some unethical doings by big corporations that sell user data. This could impede on basic human rights. Yes, this is often discussed in user agreements, but some may still be unethical. One's privacy should be the top priority if they so choose, and they should not be tricked into releasing their information.
Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
- Yes, but I always somewhat imagined my information on various platforms to look like this. Starting with basic user information (seeing as this is one data set), I can envision a MS Access table with a username, Real first and last name, password (encrypted), and other basic information. Then, in the case of twitter tweets for example, linked to the name would be recent tweets in one data sets, maybe with key words recognized and some sort of ID or address associated with that tweet. Another data set of a specific user's interests may be used to show certain advertisements or make certain tweet appear on the user's "trending" page.
Marmas (talk) 21:13, 25 September 2019 (PDT)
Emma Young's Response
- What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- you can run queries and forms and are able to compare your data in a more efficient way.
- The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
- What is this fraught relationship?
- The fraught relationship is to allow users privacy and freedom of information, while still working within the limits of code but at the same time working to keep the entire thing secure.
- How do you feel about it? I.e., where do you stand on the trade-off between the "ease of use" you receive as a user and giving up your private data to companies who will use it to turn a profit?
- I do not like the idea that these companies can use all this information to gain an additional profit. However at the same time I am using all these services for free, so in a way I guess you could say that I am paying for these services by allowing the company information about my actually pretty boring computer usage. It is not something I really like but have kind of excepted.
- What are the social justice issues involved?
- this is a social justice issue because a lot of the times users are not aware that their data is being used. Also it becomes a matter of the ethical implications of this data and how it can be used against the person it is taken from.
- Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
- Yes I feel like I have a better idea of how all this information is stored, it makes much more sense now how it is stored and how the data can interact.
Eyoung20 (talk) 23:50, 25 September 2019 (PDT)
DeLisa Madere's Response
What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- It is better to store your data in a database because it is more reliable than a regular spreadsheet program. In a database like Microsoft Access, each entry that is inputted gets saved automatically, so if it the system were to malfunction, the data would be shared regardless. One of the advantages of having a database is being able to see all the data at once and not having to switch back and forth like on Excel. From this section, you are allowed to create queries using commonalities in order to view specific parts of the data together and how they are related.
The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces.
- What is this fraught relationship?
- The fraught relationship is referring to the change between Lynda to LinkedIn Learning. LinkedIn Learning is allowing users to look at learning tutorials using their LinkedIn accounts. If their LinkedIn is linked to the learning page, people who are searching for their LinkedIn page now have access to what tutorials the person has watched. This is a fraught relationship because it shows that libraries are linking all the databases together, which is making our private spaces more public to these databases.
- How do you feel about it? I.e., where do you stand on the trade-off between the "ease of use" you receive as a user and giving up your private data to companies who will use it to turn a profit?
- I do not want to have companies looking at my data for profit when I am the one who is putting in the effort to use it. This is similar to the topic of giving credit where it is due. If I am using LinkedIn Learning to gain the necessary resources to be well-rounded, I would not like to be "recorded" in a database for somebody else's benefit, especially without knowing.
- What are the social justice issues involved?
- The social justice issues involved surrounding this topic include inequality between users and private companies as well as the unfair treatment of users by private companies. It is not fair to users that private companies are using data for their own benefit when the users are the ones who are putting in all the time and effort to gain the experience. There should be more communication on what is going on in specific databases like these before users are trying them out.
Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
- I feel like after this assignment I definitely have a better understanding of how data looks when stored in a computer. I was unaware of all the technologies and coding that went into storing a database. Data is managed in a way that sometimes has to be secure in order to provide safety to the relative findings. In the FDA example, the data was compressed in a zip file so that users on computers are able to decompress it and analyze it. It is accessible by the general public, but specific people analyzing the data know just how to open and discover different findings about it. This website gets updated every week, so as time goes on, new data gets inputted, showing more how important coding is when storing data.Dmadere (talk) 23:30, 25 September 2019 (PDT)
Marcus Avila's Response
What are the advantages of using a database, like Microsoft Access, instead of a spreadsheet program, like Microsoft Excel, when managing your data?
- The advantages include being able to form relationships between the different data sets. Also, Access is a better tool when the data must be stored and queries are performed.
The blog post mentions a "fraught relationship about data, privacy, and how private companies operate in public spaces."
What is this fraught relationship?
The fraught relationship is the relationship between LinkedIn Learning and library users who must enter their information into LinkedIn.
How do you feel about it? I.e., where do you stand on the trade-off between the "ease of use" you receive as a user and giving up your private data to companies who will use it to turn a profit?
I don't have a problem with giving my private data to LinkedIn because whatever I have on there I consider to be a more professional representation of myself. It is slightly unsettling that a profit is being made from my information, but as long as I am not being harmed professionally I don't think it is a completely bad for my information to be spread on a professional platform.
What are the social justice issues involved?
The main social justice issue involved is that my information is being turned a profit without my complete knowledge.
Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1 of What is Code?—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
Yes, I imagine the data is being linked to create a sort of profile of myself to help create a more whole image of me.
Mavila9 (talk) 23:22, 25 September 2019 (PDT)
