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tags: mdef
year: 2023
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MDEF - A world in data
Class Notes 2023
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**Links to keep around**

- What you will need for **Day 1**
- [Presentation](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C6a7c6AjHmd1qRQjXASqqQ_dmBcNjgkS1jHmWjFqwW0/edit?usp=sharing)
- [Available data capture tools](https://hackmd.io/i46Hmb2vTcKI6_DIoaxDvQ)
- [Sense Making Journal Template](https://hackmd.io/HeL0zMM4QIuEW9pXt4QAaQ)
- What you will need for **Day 2**
- [SC Orange guides](https://docs.smartcitizen.me/Resources/Tutorials/#data), [official docs](https://orangedatamining.com/docs/) and [videos](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClKKWBe2SCAEyv7ZNGhIe4g)
- [Web scrapping](https://hackmd.io/EFtARnSMRLW-db4RJrB_hQ?view)
- What you will need for **Day 3**
- [Data repository](https://github.com/fablabbcn/mdef-a-world-in-data)

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## Why are we here today?

<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTaQ-zItk9JuS2hvK6yjJT9_VD40yNBHH8aHkljvpnY_p3u7nVO4s28fAj0aktIp8mH827LGgqnhYUC/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=60000" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="640px" allowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true"></iframe>

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**Other years**
1. [Lonely young people](https://hackmd.io/@YILZtPbvS8ysod9oGVZhwg/rkuj0ajPY)
2. [Eating space at IAAC](https://hackmd.io/@rubendehaan/HkiYyRjDF)
3. [Urban Gardeners](https://hackmd.io/T-GuyioJTf2Mz_rITDlOBQ)
4. [Food Origins](https://hackmd.io/YdIVHkalQhu7uryzWZcYFw?both)
5. [Gender Expression](https://hackmd.io/EtXk_eLfTmeD98oJX0lKrQ)
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## Using our own data (day 1)

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For this part, we will be using the tools shown [here](https://hackmd.io/i46Hmb2vTcKI6_DIoaxDvQ)
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### Hands-on day 1

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Use this area to put your copy of the [Sense Making Journal Template](https://hackmd.io/HeL0zMM4QIuEW9pXt4QAaQ)

* [We want a better work-life balance](https://hackmd.io/wLNUaeyyR32BA8rWh7lFUg?both)
* [Engagers](https://hackmd.io/V5oxTmRXTGC1IJY0ac_oAw)
* [MDEF Classroom Monitor](https://hackmd.io/563RCS8SQWGBG-ieNqbuBg)
* [Triggering Curiosity](https://hackmd.io/6pe4C8EkSCmeJyPlKlmLGQ?view)

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## Using data from others (day 2)

### The demons of data

Topics:
- Privacy
- Exploitation
- Unaware data collection
- Data saturation and data usefullness (data into information)

### Open Data and platforms

Same presentation as above, but from slide 47.

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**Links**
- [SC Orange guides](https://docs.smartcitizen.me/Resources/Tutorials/#data), [official docs](https://orangedatamining.com/docs/) and [videos](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClKKWBe2SCAEyv7ZNGhIe4g)
- [Web scrapping](https://hackmd.io/EFtARnSMRLW-db4RJrB_hQ?view)
- What you will need for **Day 3**
- [Data repository](https://github.com/fablabbcn/mdef-a-world-in-data)
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## References

- **Privacy**
- [_Book_ - The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10596103-the-filter-bubble?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=Vz2TLUup2J&rank=1), Eli Pariser.
- [_Book_ - Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60659995-infocracy?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=2mIIViIz7M&rank=1), Byung-Chul Han.
- [_Book_ - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26195941-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism), Shoshana Zuboff.
- [Data brokers netflow](https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg84yy/data-brokers-netflow-data-team-cymru)
- [Private intelligence location](https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj454d/private-intelligence-location-data-xmode-hyas)
- [Strava military case](https://www.wired.com/story/strava-heat-map-military-bases-fitness-trackers-privacy/) and [consequences](https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/28/politics/strava-military-bases-location/index.html)
- **Science and questioning**
- [Rising up agains statistical significance](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00857-9) also [here](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30894741/)
- **Tools and use cases**
- [air/aria/aire - Evidència Cartogràfica](http://air.300000.eu/#ca)
- [Smart Citizen Kit and Station: An open environmental monitoring system for citizen participation and scientific experimentation](https://www.hardware-x.com/article/S2468-0672(19)30020-3/fulltext)
- **Capitalism and data exploitation**
- [Amazon Mechanical Turk](https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/amazon-mechanical-turk/551192/)
- [_Book_ - Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28186015-weapons-of-math-destruction), Cathy O'Neil.
- **Courses**
- [FastAI Ethics](https://ethics.fast.ai/syllabus/)