Critical Questions for Big Data¶
boyd, d., & Crawford, K. (2012). Critical Questions for Big Data: Provocations for a Cultural, Technological, and Scholarly Phenomenon. Information, Communication & Society.
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Mechanisms¶
- Use-Trace Heatmap
- Its central blind spot is that a heatmap can only light up people who are present — the deterred, excluded, and absent leave no mark, so the map silently omits exactly the users a redesign might most need to serve.
This sourceWarns that digital-trace datasets represent only trace-producing subsets and can be unrepresentative of the population.
- Its central blind spot is that a heatmap can only light up people who are present — the deterred, excluded, and absent leave no mark, so the map silently omits exactly the users a redesign might most need to serve.
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