Data collection for the future

Deepika Dixit
Nov 4 · 2 min read

Onuoha quotes Bruce Schneier to state that data that people provide consent to share can imply conclusions that people don’t want to share. She says that data sets reveal far more information than intended and sometimes the results of these connections can be powerfully exhibited. She further says that data is subjective and that biases are introduced in data due to value tensions arising between the subjects (those who make up the collected) and the objects (the collectors of data). We should look at data from a systematically as well as from a human-centered approach to understand the underlying relationships.

  1. Data about my cultural roots. What daily activities/habits are informed form the country I come from.
  2. I would like to collect data about my body’s degeneration over my life span. What factors would one consider to measure degeneration. Is this physical or mental degeneration?
  3. I would like to collect data about the subconscious parts of my brain. Does the data stored in the sub cortex affect my decision making?
  4. I would like to collect information about my productivity. Not just my screen time working on a particular tool but the measure of how much I learned.
  5. I would like to get data to track my anxiety levels and help me relate them to incidents and create a pattern around them.
  6. Data to track my career inclinations. How many times within a week I felt good doing a particular kind of work/task

I really liked Giorgia’s talk about data humanism and how data can be used to represent human nature by including empathy, imperfection and human nature for its analysis and synthesis.

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