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Ailin Zhang posted a new activity comment 7 years, 10 months ago
Data can be biased. Data bias happens because researchers find the data they want while ignoring others. Singal Problem describes places with more focus can gain more attention, while other places with less focus can get few covers. In the real world, when I look for a restaurant on yelp, the one with more comments has more chance to appear on the…[Read more]
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Ailin Zhang posted a new activity comment 7 years, 10 months ago
The title of the article I found is “How Trump’s White House Could Mess With Government Data”. In this article, the author expressed his fear of Trump’s data manipulation since he already had poor records with his personal tax. Also, data played a leading role in several areas, such as economics, politics, and the environment. A number of r…[Read more]
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Ailin Zhang posted a new activity comment 7 years, 10 months ago
The title of the article I found is “How Trump’s White House Could Mess With Government Data”. In this article, the author expressed his fear of Trump’s data manipulation since he already had poor records with his personal tax. Also, data played a leading role in several areas, such as economics, politics, and the environment. A number of r…[Read more]
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Ailin Zhang posted a new activity comment 7 years, 10 months ago
A conventional wisdom I always heard is that “Don’t just stand there. Do something.” However, in the real world, when people meet catastrophe, like the earthquake, it is better to do nothing rather than trying to do something. I think the data of casualty rates in the earthquake can be used to disprove this conventional wisdom.
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Ailin Zhang posted a new activity comment 7 years, 11 months ago
Facebook restores all kinds of contents and information. For me, I use it as a contact book. I can use Facebook to know more about my friends and interesting stuff. So rows are separated into two categories: friends and public accounts. And their names show on the row. The columns would be their birthday(or when they are founded), their…[Read more]
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Ailin Zhang posted a new activity comment 7 years, 11 months ago
The article I choose is “A Transit Strike In Philly Could Lower Turnout, Especially Among Black And Poor Voters”. I choose this article because I do not know how the strike will influence the election. The author, Dan Hopkins, shows the relationship between residents who are black, residents who earn median household income, and residents who ride…[Read more]