{"id":1055,"date":"2016-04-22T11:16:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T15:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eiq.knx.mybluehost.me\/website_78d26930\/bigdatacourse?p=1055"},"modified":"2016-04-22T11:16:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T15:16:04","slug":"public-good-definition-is-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jjsylvia.com\/bigdatacourse\/public-good-definition-is-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Good Definition is Weird."},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I want to first mention that it appears that we are using the term “public good” VERY loosely. I think a lot of us may have a wrong idea of what public good is, based on the definition. There are few public goods: clean water, national defense, and a few others are mentioned on the wikipedia page for “pubic good”. Therefore, I feel like considering a company’s public good initiative is very flawed, as I don’t think any company can really give us that other than homeland defense or the environmental protection agency.<\/p>\n

Now, I do feel like public good used loosely can go a lot of ways. A company might have a public good initiative that isn’t necessarily free\/accessible to EVERYONE or completely non-competitive, but there are a bunch of companies who are committed to doing good in their local community. Again, I think that those two things are very different, and easy to confuse, but I also think it is really important to see the difference.<\/p>\n

So, I actually don’t want to give the name of any of the companies I’m talking about, as 1) I am applying for jobs in these companies, and 2) this also applies to a LARGE number of companies I’ve seen…not just these. So, forgive my vagueness, but I feel very uncomfortable with\u00a0my name associated on the internet with these companies.<\/p>\n

Several companies I have applied for in the last month have initiatives to do good in the community. Three companies in the RDU area that I have applied for have on their websites, linkedin profiles, and job descriptions that they offer paid time off for their employees to do volunteer work at a local non-profit or volunteer service. They offer days off for this, and\u00a0two of the companies that I applied for even REQUIRE their employees to take off a certain number of hours a year to do some sort of community service. They also work closely and donate time and money to certain local organizations, which I think is great.<\/p>\n

Now, I can see that this isn’t necessarily a “good”, BUT if we look in terms of people’s labor as a “good”, these companies are offering and encouraging free (for the community) service many times with skilled workers. This is greatly beneficial to the local community, and considering the wide array of charities around this area, many different types of people can access this help. The company’s goal is to give back to their local communities. Two of the three companies I applied for are huge companies, while one is a smaller, local company, so it’s quite a scale that do these things. I think our generation is doing well in focusing on more humanitarian goals that the previous ones. These are all profitable, and successful companies.<\/p>\n

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I really can’t answer how these companies get big data, and I also don’t really see how that applies to public good. Perhaps they collect the names of organizations that their employees are working with to find where needs in the community lie.<\/p>\n

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I would say for example, one of the companies I am looking at has 500 local employees (estimated). If everyone is required to take even just a day off, they are doing a LOT of good in the community.<\/p>\n

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So, I want to first mention that it appears that we are using the term “public good” VERY loosely. I think a lot of us may have a wrong idea of what public good is, based on the definition. There are few public goods: clean water, national defense, and a few others are mentioned on
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