Jevin D. West (Associate Professor, University of Washington)
September 11, 2018
The world is awash in BS. Pandering politicians, winking advertisers, startup soothsayers, television “experts”, and even some scientists use the news media to promulgate half-truths, misrepresentations and sometimes outright lies. Cleaning up our polluted information environments requires a digital citizenry that can spot and effectively refute BS. This talk will provide a set of strategies for combatting a particular kind of BS—BS cloaked in data, figures, statistics and algorithms—that combine the critical thinking skills of a humanities education with the emerging field of data science.
Subjects
Journalism and Communication / Film and Media / Technology / Humanities / Data Science / Information Literacy /
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