Data Collection Flashcards
Data ethics and privacy:
acronym PII (pronounced “pie” for the term?
personally identifiable information
Examples on personally identifiable information?
address, email, phone number, social security numbers, credit card numbers, and medical records.
Do we all have an obligation to protect personally identifiable information?
Yes
Ethical issues regarding data collection may be divided into the following categories:
- Consent: Individuals must be informed and give their consent for information to be collected.
- Ownership: Anyone collecting data must be aware that individuals have ownership over their information.
- Intention: Individuals must be informed about what information will be taken, how it will be stored, and how it will be used.
- Privacy: Information about individuals must be kept secure. This is especially important for any and all personally identifiable information.
Data can come from a lot of places like:
research, governments, technology, observation, or directly from individuals — the list is endless!
Seeking out information that doesn’t exist yet
This can include activities like surveys, observational studies, or recording the results of an experiment.
what does static in data mean?
meaning the information is collected once and does not change. Think about conducting a survey by mail: the survey results are collected and recorded only once.
can data be live as well?
Yes, based on the most up to date information
Examples on live data:
apps and websites can track clicks and time spent on pages across multiple users at the same time without a human actively recording all the data points.
Data sources some of the free ones:
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- FiveThirtyEight
- Data.gov: The U.S. government has its own open data collection.
- Data Unicef: UNICEF’s Data and Analytics team provides global access to data on children.
and you can use Google Dataset Search to find a lot of data sets
