Big Data and the Rhetoric of Information

Filter Bubble And Predictive Analytics

After reading the article for today, I feel like I have a better understanding of how I’m targeted for ads...

Privacy & Ethics Readings

Privacy & Ethics Readings

Privacy and Ethics – group members: Ellen McMullen, Julie Gareton, Matthew Starr and Alexandra Goodfred Please read before class on...

Filter Bubbles & Opinion Polarization

Filter Bubbles & Opinion Polarization

Political Polarization: The type “opinion polarization” that I hear discussed most. Check out this ted talk that I like and watched...

Oddly Specific

Normally I would say that I don’t really put a lot of my data online, but the more I think...

Not Too Impressed with Predictive Analytics

  As we have discussed in many previous lectures and blogs, we all reveal tons of different kinds of data...

Speed it up.

Having strangers dig through our personal interactions in order to pinpoint behavioral similarities within our culture is something that seems...

Checking In: Predictive Analytics on Facebook

  Whenever I visit my father in Kansas City, he always checks me in everywhere we go together. So if...

Google Takeout

Until this class, I’ve never noticed the how much input I have to big data.  Since there are so many...

Predictive Analytics

Predictive Analytics

Thinking about predictive analytics in terms of applying my own personal data, I can imagine a variety of businesses and...

Predictive Analytics- Charlie Betts

Predictive Analytics- Charlie Betts

The most useful data I provide for businesses would have to come from my search history on Google. I google...