Peter, I really like the point you made about not including race unless it is relevant to the point of the project. This is not something I considered, but I think it could be really helpful in keeping the focus on the main message of the project. I wonder if this is maybe true for other factors as well such as gender and age. I think this…[Read more]

Peter, I thoroughly enjoyed your post and thought you made some excellent points. Personally, my reaction to Safiya Umoja Noble’s TED Talk was very similar to yours. I understand that the results we see from Google Search Engines and other similar resources are often biased or racist. However, I am not certain that this bias comes from the a…[Read more]

Eric, I really related to the middle paragraph of your post. I also found myself feeling completely lost when we started working with tools like ParseHub and the Topic Modeling Tool. Coming from a technical background, my troubles were not grounded in the operation of these tools but rather what we can learn from them. If I had to choose one word…[Read more]

Eric, I really enjoyed your post, and I think you posed a lot of really great questions. In my response, I would first like to address one question in particular: which data points will be considered more important? To be honest, I have never considered this before, and thinking about it has been very intriguing to me. For starters, I worry that…[Read more]

Brittany, I really enjoyed reading about what you learned from your archives. During class, your archive is one that really stood out to me. Its format and organization was particularly interesting, especially with the pages that unfolded into large tables or lists. The different sized pages not only made for a much more interesting and engaging…[Read more]

Well said, Peter. I tend to agree with your position here. It seems unreasonable to blame these businesses in cases where they are being honest about their actions. Legally, they have done nothing wrong, and they have not lied to us. We are using their services given the terms and agreements, and it is not their fault if we choose not to read…[Read more]