讲座：大数据的潜力和陷阱
6月30日晚上 19:00-20:30
地点：南强二 102
嘉宾： 蒋敏 （北卡罗来纳大学）
讲座介绍：
Pubic Lecture: The Potential and Pitfalls of Big Data
This public lecture attempts to initiate a discussion with audience regarding the potentials and pitfalls of big data. Often touted to the public as the next frontier of Internet-based innovations, “big data” presents both a great deal of promise and challenge to individuals, commercial, governmental and non-governmental entities. Big data introduces many issues concerning privacy, personal identity, bias, and surveillance. This lecture will discuss:
o What is big data? How is it different from small data?
o How is big data collected? Who collects it? For what purposes?
o How have commercial companies, scholarly communities and governmental entities approached big data? What problems have accompanied such collection and analyses of big data?
Drawing from recent research from overseas, mainly from the U.S., this lecture will examine a few provocations:
o Big data can change the definition of knowledge
o Big data’s claims to objectivity and accuracy can be misleading
o Bigger data are not always better data
o Taken out of context, big data loses its meaning
o Data access does not make it ethical
o Limited access to big data can create new digital divides and biases