After studying data science for the society last week, it was time for the final course of the semester. The final INTENSIVE of the semester was EVIDENCE, ARGUMENT AND PERSPIRATION. In this class we learned about three interesting types of arguments: deduction, induction and abduction. Both deduction and induction ensure that the inference is true, […]

In week 7 we studied an intensive course on data science where we had to select and visualize data on a selected social topic and present the results in a group presentation of what we had done over the two days of the course. This semester we have been studying presenting data, which focuses on […]

As I think more about the progression towards my final project, one of the key decisions I need to make is what research methods to use. I’ve been briefly exploring a variety of research methods, drawing on both traditional academic approaches and more creative, design-based methods. To be honest, because my undergraduate degree was in […]

Last week, I discussed my project topic with my tutor Juli. Now my main problem is to find the right database. I do not have access to many databases, just as Juli worries. I’m looking for the right database to allow me to do data visualization. Last Friday, I also finished the team report on […]

I feel like I have just been treading water the last few weeks. It’s a combination of work, home and study pressures but today has been the first day I feel like I can touch the ground (not to labour the metaphor). It’s still going to be busy for the next few weeks but I […]

In works future, I imagined a question: Will there be no work in this world? Should we be happy or worried in a world without work? Oscar Wilde imagined a world without work. He wrote in “The Soul of Man under Socialism” (1891): Humans amuse themselves — or enjoy elegant leisure or create beautiful things […]

This is the third post in SEM2     Back from the reading week, which I had the initial project meeting with the clients on Tuesday about the ‘Hierarchical Word Cloud’ from ‘Representing Data’. This project is one of the most interesting projects for me in this course as it combines both fields of Natural […]

These past few weeks have been a huge struggle. I find that as things pick up, It becomes harder and harder to engage with the KIPP blog. To be honest, I was under the impression last term that this course was only one term and I have found myself complete burnout of blog ideas. Reflective […]

In the Inclusive Society course assignment, I found citizens’ participation in political events on social media to study the democracy brought about by this phenomenon as an expression of the promotion of the development of an inclusive society. On the one hand, this political participation in social media breaks with the traditional top-down political practice […]

During this period, I conducted the most difficult course of this semester – data science of society. In the intensive days of this course, the main work of the whole team is visualization. The theme of our group is conflicts. We first studied different types of conflicts and their frequency in various countries. We found […]