...Spotlight on Big Data Spotlight Artwork Tamar Cohen, Andrew J Buboltz 2011, silk screen on a page from a high school yearbook, 8.5" x 12" Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century Meet the people who can coax treasure out of messy, unstructured data. by Thomas H. Davenport and D.J. Patil 70 Harvard Business Review October 2012 hen Jonathan Goldman arrived for work in June 2006 at LinkedIn, the business networking site, the place still felt like a start-up. The company had just under 8 million accounts, and the number was growing quickly as existing members invited their friends and colleagues to join. But users weren’t seeking out connections with the people who were already on the site at the rate executives had expected. Something was apparently missing in the social experience. As one LinkedIn manager put it, “It was like arriving at a conference reception and realizing you don’t know anyone. So you just stand in the corner sipping your drink—and you probably leave early.” SPOTLIGHT ON BIG DATA Goldman, a PhD in physics from Stanford, was intrigued by the linking he did see going on and by the richness of the user profiles. It all made for messy data and unwieldy analysis, but as he began exploring people’s connections, he started to see possibilities. He began forming theories, testing hunches, and finding patterns that allowed him to predict whose networks a given profile would land in. He could imagine that new...
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...Media’s Views on Science Naomi Acevedo SC250-Science for Everyday Life July 18, 2016 Social Media’s Views on Science The way the media depicts scientist has not been proven to be 100% true in regards to how they actually are in the real world. Although we know this, most people still see scientist in the same manner when asked to describe what a scientist looks like. Media usually depicts the scientist as geeky, nerdy, unattractive, crazy or mad, and even at times evil, but this does not rule out scientist being the hero. (Meredith, D.). When I hear the word scientist, the image that comes to mind is that of a male or female in a knee-length white lab coat, gloves and those clear experimental goggles we were all told to wear in grade school. This person might have a calculator and/or thermometer in their left breast pocket or even black plastic frame glasses as a finishing touch to give them that intelligent look that people associate the with smarter than average people. Some of the characters from television and films that comes to mind are the scientist Dr. Emmit Brown from the movie Back to the Future, Steve Urkel from a comedy television series called Family Matters and Temperance Brennan from the television series Bones. All three of these characters wore the white coat when in the essence of portraying a scientist. I’d like to think of the white coat as a sort of uniform for the job, just as a police officer and a firefighter have a certain uniform that helps to...
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...“science” question remains controversial. By learning about this controversy, students can learn much about the discipline. This paper describes an exercise, together with data collected from six classes, that asks students to project their personal images of scientists and social scientists. These images invariably contain half-truths and misconceptions that can be used to address three related questions: (1) What is science? (2) How is sociology scientific? and (3) What are the major challenges to sociology as a science? I draw upon my own students’ responses to show how the exercise can generate a wide-ranging discussion of these issues. Is Sociology a Science? A Classroom Exercise for Promoting Discussion The question of whether sociology is a science has a long history in the discipline. It was addressed by virtually all the classical social theorists. But for some time the debate about the scientific status of sociology was muted. In the post-World War II period up to the early 1960s, quantitative methods were ascendant and theorists and methodologists alike embraced sociology as a positivist endeavor. Since then, however, a sharp division has arisen “between those who are committed to sociology as a science and those who remain skeptical and critical of such pretensions” (Turner and Turner, 1990:7). Examples of this split are...
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...mercantilism, sciences witnessed a major reform in their field. Scientists such as Galileo and Copernicus contributed greatly to the astronomical sciences. Other like Newton discovered completely new theories and ideas. All of these scientists were affected by similar political and religious factors. The works of scientists were both negatively affected by the Church, who oppressed new scientific ideas and positively by political leaders who became patrons and helped scientists. The Church had a great amount of power over science at...
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...JAYPEE BUSINESS SCHOOL Assignment on – Getting Value from Your Data Scientists Submitted To: Submitted By: Prof. Ashok Kumar Wahi Aishwarya Alagh (14609116) Plagiarism Report (Screenshots from www.smallseotools.com) Plagiarism Report (Screenshots from www.smallseotools.com) Data Science is an interdisciplinary field about procedures and frameworks to concentrate learning or experiences from information in different structures, either organized or unstructured, which is a continuation of a percentage of the information investigation fields, for example, insights, information mining, and predictive examination, like Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). Data science utilizes systems and hypotheses drawn from numerous fields inside of the expansive ranges of arithmetic, statistics, chemo metrics, data science, and software engineering, including sign handling, likelihood models, machine learning, statistical learning, information mining, database, information building, example acknowledgment and learning, representation, prescient analytics, uncertainty displaying, information warehousing, information pressure, PC programming, counterfeit consciousness, and superior processing. Strategies that scale to Big Data are exceptionally compelling in information science, in spite of the fact that the control...
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...Social Science & Medicine 66 (2008) 2520e2531 www.elsevier.com/locate/socscimed Biomedical scientists’ perception of the social sciences in health research* Mathieu Albert a,*, Suzanne Laberge b, Brian D. Hodges a, Glenn Regehr a, Lorelei Lingard a a b University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada ´ ´ ´ Available online 11 March 2008 Abstract The growing interest in interdisciplinary research within the Canadian health sciences sector has been manifested by initiatives aimed at increasing the involvement of the social sciences in this sector. Drawing on Bourdieu’s concept of field and Knorr-Cetina’s concept of epistemic culture, this study explores the extent to which it is possible for the social sciences to integrate into, and thrive in, a field in which the experimental paradigm occupies a hegemonic position. Thirty-one semi-structured interviews were conducted to explore biomedical scientists’ receptiveness toward the social sciences in general and to qualitative research in particular. We found that these respondents exhibited a predominantly negative posture toward the social sciences; however, we also found considerable variation in their judgments and explanations. Eight biomedical scientists tended to be receptive to the social sciences, 7 ambivalent, and 16 unreceptive. The main rationale expressed by receptive respondents is that the legitimacy of a method depends on its capacity to adequately...
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...Scientists Rani A. Perales Kaplan University Scientists Scientists. How would you define a scientist? According to Merriam-Webster, a scientist is “a person who is trained in a science and whose job involves doing scientific research or solving scientific problems” (2015). Now, how would you envision a scientist? Could there be a long-term impact because of how the media makes fictional scientists look? The media has portrayed scientists in many different ways, and can influence how people view scientists. Also, the media can even influence how scientists view certain research and technology. When the word scientist comes to mind I tend to think of Temperance Brennan from the television show, Bones played by Emily Deschanel. She is extremely brilliant, has no sense of humor, very head strong, emotionally detached, and yet somehow finds love. Another scientist that I found interesting is Adrian Helmsley from the movie “2012,” played by Chiwetel Ejiofor. He too is a brilliant man, full of compassion, and wanting to help others. The likeness they both have is how they want to find the answers to help people. He wants the right answers to try to save humanity and she wants the right answers to help find people’s identities and put away murderers. When I think about a scientist I think of someone who is intelligent; they would have to be, to think and figure out their research and explain how they see their work. They would have to be open-minded; they would neet to be in...
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...proportion of the budget devoted to basic research, the underpinning of scientific and technological advances. Scientists have understood the potentially debilitating consequences of this, but many citizens have not. President Clinton's budget for fiscal 1999 would begin to reverse this trend, if Congress accepts his proposals, but our information media still need to do a much better job of helping scientists communicate the substance and importance of their work. As visiting scholars at the Freedom Forum's First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, we conducted a survey of 2,000 journalists and editors and 2,000 scientists and engineers to determine how the two groups felt about each other. We also wanted to find ways to improve their relationship and thus increase the amount of accurate and useful scientific information in the media. The results of the survey, published in our recent report, "Worlds Apart," showed that neither scientists nor journalists think the media do a good job of explaining science to the public. We asked both groups to rate how effectively the major media communicate scientific news. Both groups gave national newspapers such as The New York Times and The Washington Post the best ranking, but neither group considered any of the media to be doing a particularly good job. The results also revealed a serious lack of confidence by both scientists and journalists in the media's understanding of how science is done and...
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...for Everyday Life Unit 9 Assignment August 05, 2014 When I hear the word “scientist” there are multiple things that run through my thoughts. I picture someone in a lab coat trying to discover a cure to a disease like cancer or the next plague that comes along. There is this image of dry ice coming out of test tubes and beakers surrounding them. Maybe even a bunch of stressed out yuppie looking guys who had way too much coffee, desperately trying to find the vaccine to stop the zombie apocalypse. I also picture Beaker from the Muppet show. He did a wonderful job forming an image of what a scientist probably was to me as a child. He was insecure and he made a mess. My cousin is a scientist so then there is an image of this very stern but sarcastic guy testing and testing and retesting. That image sounds so boring but I’m grateful there are brilliant minds like him out there. Scientist come in many different forms. They study and discover many different things. Over time there have been many types of scientist and they weren’t all wearing lab coats. Leonardo da Vinci was one I found interesting due to my love of art. He combined art and science in his sketches. He has amazing futuristic designs and even envisioned flight. Sadly he was a chronic procrastinator and had frequent disasters with his experiments of new techniques (Leonadoda-Vinci). Galileo Galilei was an Italian scientist who developed the telescopes and started to observe the solar system. He was a pioneer...
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...The pursuit of knowledge carried on by the scientist for the past several centuries has produced results which have produced different reactions in different sections of society. There are lay people who consider science to be the fore runner of all comfort, progress and prosperity. On the other hand there are many good people who look upon science as the chief cause of the sufferings of humanity today. The debate has been raging for a long time. But while people talk and argue, science goes on taking long strides, blissfully ignorant of the praises or the abuses heaped on its head. If I Were A Scientist, I believe that we are suffering from the effect of a little science badly applied and the remedy is a lot of science properly applied. Hence I need not offer any apologies for wishing to be a scientist. But I want to be a scientist with a difference. I do not want myself to be confined to the ivory tower of pure reason unmindful of the realities of life. It is not a mere empty statement to say that the modern mind lives, breathers and has his being in this age of science. In every minor detail of our life science plays a very valuable role. I wish to contribute my share in making this world better than I find it. At the very beginning, I may make it clear that if I were a scientist, I would like to carry on my work in the province of pure science. Pure science is a relentless search for truth, for the discoveries of the mysteries of nature. As such no fault...
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...Why Should People Hate Science? Science has conquered so many diseases and is promising to cure genetic diseases and even grow us new organs. It has given us mobile phones, tablets and computers that have reduced the global village to a global mall; and yet, there are people who still refuse to accept the power of science as the major agent of change in our society. Some people find it easier to believe that special people can cure serious diseases by simply placing their hands on the diseased, while others cannot accept the fact that human beings evolved from lower animals by a process of Natural Selection over billions of years. Locally, it is a no-brainer that the lack of science teaching at a primary level has had a negative lasting effect on people, and this can be seen in newspaper, radio and TV station editors, opinionists, politicians and talk-show hosts, all of which wield the power of mass media and can influence public opinion and what people think. Unfortunately, many of them are educating the masses in the concept of GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out. GIGO is an interesting concept that refers to the fact that people are continously bombarded by pseudo-scientific and mistaken ideas, and eventually start believing their veracity and transmit them to others. These people are not necessarily uneducated individuals, but usually pick the information online and reinforce false opinions by choosing websites that agree with their views. For example, they follow...
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...10 of them being scientist and led them back to the camp of The Blue Mountain which used to be a summer camp. A short while after the Apocalypse major Carol Montega from the U.S. Army showed up with 20 soldiers following behind her. She has planned on taking her team to the CDC in New York City. The Scientist have not been trained to survive in the wilderness on their own. Major Montega has to make sure that everyone who is staying behind while the others go to New York are going to be safe by providing rules and solutions to some problems that may arise while they are gone. Some problems may exist that may be out of their control, such as the scientist will have to figure out how to accomplish the things they need to do like training, and getting quarantined before they travel to New Yourk to find a cure for the zombie virus. Background This case study will give you information about the scientists training to survive in the wilderness. They will learn how to hunt, build a fire, find edible plants and generally survive in the wilderness. The scientist and the soldiers must come to an agreement about who will go to New York and who will stay behind at the camp and be able to provide and protect themselves at the camp. Some of the issues they may run into are that some of the scientist may get lost on their journey and they will not know how to survive in the wilderness by themselves. Key Problems The 10 surviving scientist are facing some...
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...Divergence occurs on opinions about the impact of CO2 to climate change and what climate change is going to bring us. Data difference causes part of the divergences, but also the scientific attitudes can make those divergences too. The scientists who think that carbon dioxides and climate matter to human environment can be considered as heroic adventurer, the role who would like to think everything critically and explore those unknown fields. The discovery of the relationship between global change and CO2 is really amazing to be done by those heroic scientists back in the history. Human made a great progress in technology by using fossil fuel since the first industrial revolution in 1760s without noticing the price they paid by scarifying their environment. During that time period that people respected machines as gods, some scientists pointed out the downside of over using fossil fuel based on their observation of climate change...
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...CDC in July to find a cure for zombie-ism by co-teaching a proposed zombie evasion training program, especially for the 10 out of 50 scientist who had no training and would be traveling with Carol Montega. This training class had two goals: 1. Scientist would know how to hunt, build a fire, and to find edible plants to eat. 2. Generally survive in the wilderness With the nature of this training program that should begin on June15th, certain stipulation have to occur such as trainees must arrive with their own rifles and camping equipment, and lastly, all trainees must have undergone a 10-day quarantine to ensure they have not been infected with the zombie virus. However, the brief study finds the prospects of the training program in its current state are not positive. The major areas of flaw require further investigation and remedial action by the co-trainers. Recommendations include: • Discussing with co-trainers about why 3 of 10 scientists haven’t been quarantined • Improving/increasing scientists learning how build fire without matches and surviving in general • Increasing the usage of rifles of scientist who did not have rifles with them, including ammunition or camping supplies The training program has successfully identified key solutions to avoid being eaten by zombies, through a training program to prepare the scientists on their travels to New York State’s CDC, but other areas will need improvement before the program is at 100 percent....
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...the desired outcome. Every scientist goes through this cycle; they must test everything they find multiple times. This is the image John M. Barry paints in his book The Great Influenza. Barry utilizes numerous writing devices to show readers what all scientists must go through in order to prove a single discovery. In the first three paragraphs of the passage, Barry lays the foundation for his argument. First, he states that while certainty creates strength, uncertainty creates weakness and fear, making one...
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