Lecture 1

excerpts to discuss:

• boyd, danah, and Kate Crawford. 2012. "Critical questions for big data: Provocations for a cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon." Information, Communication & Society 15.5: 662-679. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2012.678878

• Wallach, Hannah. Big data, machine learning, and the social sciences: Fairness, accountability, and transparency. Medium. Retrieved December 20, 2014, from https://medium.com/@hannawallach/big-data-machine-learning-and-the-social-sciences-927a8e20460d