{"id":721,"date":"2015-03-23T23:37:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T03:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/?p=721"},"modified":"2015-03-23T23:37:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T03:37:45","slug":"data-about-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/2015\/03\/23\/data-about-ourselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Data about Ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/files\/2015\/03\/target.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[721]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-722\" src=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/files\/2015\/03\/target-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"target\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Foreman&#8217;s article about data surveillance and machine learning as a means of gaining information about consumers took a unique approach to a topic in which we have previously discussed in depth. I personally really liked the article and the approach hat Foreman took, and his perspective on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>When he started out with the example of the Disney World tracking device, it seemed as if he was trying to ease in to his argument with a somewhat funny and more lighthearted example. However, it divulges into one of his main points of corporations using data for profit. When Disney can track the different time and places that people do activities, it allows them to use this data to best attempt to maximize their profit and work to the needs of the consumers.<\/p>\n<p>I also really liked how he differentiated between businesses using and NSA using personal data, and how he argued that we should prefer the NSA&#8217;s use, as he views the NSA of giving citizens more credit than the businesses. This was an interesting perspective, as the NSA spying my seem less obtrusive than simply tracking shopping habits at first glance.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I believe that extreme use of machine learning will begin to threaten humanities creativity. Speaking for myself, I am a creature of habit. I tend to frequent the same restaurants, vacation spots, and am a very routine oriented person. Will machine learning tracking everyone habits to the T, it will even lower the probability that people will branch out and push their creative boundaries. Although this can be very useful for company market campaigns, I believe that humanity must continue to evolve in a natural way.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/target.jpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Foreman&#8217;s article about data surveillance and machine learning as a means of gaining information about consumers took a unique approach to a topic in which we have previously discussed in depth. I personally really liked the article and the approach hat Foreman took, and his perspective on the issue. When he started out with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/2015\/03\/23\/data-about-ourselves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Data about Ourselves<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-3","category-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}