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May 18, 2024
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HIST 30705 - History Of Big Data
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Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand a variety of historical contexts that have shaped how we use, collect, and analyze data in the 21st century. 2. Assess historical arguments about the place of data in the growth of state bureaucracies, colonialism, eugenics, national security, warfare, and scientific research made in scholarly secondary sources. 3. Use primary sources to make arguments about the historical contingency of the ways practitioners have been using data to solve state problems. 4. Develop critical thinking about data-empowered algorithms and envision a human-centered and ethical way of creating and implementing data technologies.
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