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 […]

Weeks 3 and 4 Week 3 was a READING WEEK and after spending some time adjusting to the exhaustion of a busy second week of classes, I started reading for the post-epidemic society in Week 4. This class was about building a city after the epidemic and how to make Edinburgh more accessible. The course […]

Weeks 1 and 2 After the first week back from holiday, we started a new term of study. Having studied insight through data in the previous term, this year we are learning how to use and present data ethically and how to apply what we have learnt to real life situations. This will help us […]

I’ve been busy with my assignments for a while now, so I haven’t had time to put together ideas for my thesis. My initial idea is in the direction of tax law and income inequality. My initial concern was to find out what strategies the US has used to reduce tax evasion that China could […]

After learning more about inequality in weeks 5 and 6, I found myself more interested in economic inequality. One of the first things I set out to do was look at the tax code and income inequality. In my last paper, I analyzed the relationship between corporate income tax and income inequality, and took the […]

The problem data caused to our society This week after I finished the essay of Postdigital Society, find out what I said last week Postdigital Society, we should not only focus on data can bring human society’s development and progress, such as improve the production efficiency and quality of life of human beings, but also […]

Week 5: I’ve been looking a few weeks ago at how data exists in society, At the beginning, my understanding of data was not so strong, and it was still superficial. This week, my understanding of data has been overturned, and I know how it affects our daily life and study. In our specialized courses, […]

In the fourth week, I made a general reflection on the study of the previous three weeks. I have an elective course in the second week and the fourth week respectively, one is the non-inclusion and inequality of our major, and the other is the elective course about post-data society. During those weeks, I was […]

The intensive day learning in this week gave me a new understanding of inequality. In combination with the study of last week, I found that there are various kinds of inequality in the world, and the reasons for each kind of inequality are many minutes and various. But in general, in combination with all kinds […]