Diabetes Dataset Project
This dataset is not representative of the patient or provider experience with diabetes and patients readmission into the hospital or what causes it, but instead the data set is a limited insurance/administrative dataset from the time during a push for more profitable medicine in America. Diabetes is limited to medicated, and shorter inpatients stays, which reflects an institutional press for efficiency in hospitals. By not including weight, and making other variable limited in their categories or nearly, researchers generalize and clean the data and ignore the complex reality of the disease.
Mutual Friends
What does being friends really entail? Can virtual friendship, such as FaceBook, be of equivalent value to an actual face to face encounter?
NSA Surveillance Chilling Effect
The purpose of our project was to document the Chilling Effects of those who received information from their FOIA requests to the NSA. FOIA (freedom of information act), was put in place in order to urge Government agencies to give information access to U.S citizens regarding their personal information that the agency has recorded. Each member in our group participated in sending FOIA requests to the NSA. All together there were five participants who sent in their request, and we included profile slides in order to emphasize a more personal approac
Knowledge Retention in the Google Era
The Facebook survey we created to collect data on fellow college students' search engine use habits can be found here - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Knowledge-Retention-in-the-Google-Era/153263764790875
The Tumblr blog we created as a place to compile our data and research can be found here - http://knowledge52.tumblr.com
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