Originally, I had planned on doing the reading for our DSSG reading group over the weekend, but to be honest I did not think about work or the project almost at all this weekend. Therefore, I got in this morning and first on the agenda for me was to read the article that we'll be discussing in our reading group this afternoon. It was a pretty interesting article talking about the different issues that arise with the new popularity of studying Big Data. I think it is a very interesting read and particularly important for scientists of any discipline using Big Data, but especially computer scientists who tend to be trained to see data as explanatory in and of itself and who usually think of themselves as scientists who introduce little bias in their line of work. Really, when using Big Data there is a lot of bias introduced that can change the things being studied and the way different audiences receive the results from a study. I think talking about it in the reading group today will be very interesting.
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