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Stats 260C-160C Site Specifics
- Time: Tues/Thurs, 4:15-5:35 pm
- Place: 101 LaKretz - 100 LaKretz for Winter
- Discussion group
- Class Description
- Class List
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Homework
- 01/17/06 - Background research on CalTrans, read math article from businessweek, read excerpts from "The Next Los Angeles",
- All that glitters is not gold: Digging beneath the surface of data mining (A policy version of Prof. Kang's paper)
- FOG/A readings
Article on FOG/A IT setup"This technology provides a way for me to get closer to the craft. In the past, there were many layers between my rough sketch and the final building, and the feeling of the design could get lost before it reached the craftsman. It feels like I've been speaking a foreign language, and now, all of a sudden, the craftsman understands me. In this case, the computer is not dehumanizing; it's an interpreter." ...Frank Gehry
- Warwalking
Our walk thorough West Hollywood
Six 160/260 members spent 2.5 hours sweeping the streets of West Hollywood in search of open wireless networks. (3/12/06)
- RSS pool
FeedTools, a Ruby library for RSS and atom feeds
Speakers & Interviews
A bulk of our exploration involves speaking to site-specific/domain experts and finding out how the thematic elements of the class relate to their practices. We have also had several more abstract, high-level conversations. Links to interview transcripts (access limited by password to class members) should be available soon.
Site Specifics Wiki Structure
- New Article: If you have something interesting to talk about, post, share: create an article underneath the particular relevant section title (Medical Center, Disneyland, etc) putting the new article title in double brackets. Save the page, then follow the link to your new page and post your information there.
- New Section: If would like to create a new section: create a section on the Main Page using single (large heading) or double (subheading) equals signs.
- Discussion: If you want to discuss a page, you can either post your thoughts on the "discussion" page attached to that particular article or you can use the yahoo group that we will set up for the class.
- Editing Help: For some reason the editing help link does not take us anywhere useful. We are working on that!
- RSS feeds:
- Atom feeds:
Ongoing
As a class exploring site-specifics, "ongoing projects" could be restated as ongoing sites. These are sites we have previously, currently, and plan on having access to. Many of these sites have direct correlation to one or more of our guest speakers (see Speakers & Interviews).
About Data Flow
Responses to the flow
- Detection
- Tools might include analytical techniques for identifying anomalous points or a shift away from the "usual" pattern (visualization, data mining vacuums, good ole' reliable tools from statistical process control)
- Inference
- In a medical context, this might be termed diagnosis. Once a change has been detected, examine the data (and possibly new data) to identify root causes.
- Regulation
- Once an inference has been made, some action is taken. Data flows can be initiated solely for the purpose of regulating behavior, however. Some of the "dance" described by Dourish is of this sort.
- Vantage
- In some situations, it is helpful to create a view of the data associated with a site. In the UCLA ICU, Callender alluded to a single sheet of paper that gave him a view of recent activities; in the emergency department, the "white board" encapsulates the current state; Schwegler's 4D tool even allows for predictions from the present; CalTrans has a master "control room" that combines data from the entire highway system. And yet, Callender talks about walking the hospital to assess its (larger) state, and Schwegler mentioned Disney employees walking the park. The 3-page, double-sided form that held a patient's daily information seemed to provide a good vantage point for a assessing the "state" of a patient; but the new digital version seems to lack that perspective (the display is cramped and focused on only subsets of the data). When is it useful to think about the view of a larger data system? It must be some combination of a large physical system (not easily assessed by physical navigation) and "actionable" data.
What to do with Site Specific Data Flow?
- Data Display / Visualization
- Princeton Large Scale Display
- LA traffic??
- Understand or Help Activity Coordination
- Data and Health Care Records
- Fighting Fires
- Inference
Misc. Links and Topics
Insurance Info
Not to get off topic, but if anyone's curious:
Genetic profiling/screening
Auto insurance PAYD (Pay as You Drive)
- Introduction to PAYD Has lots of refs at the end.
- TripSense Progressive's PAYD offering.
- EDR Article on data recording capabilities already inside some cars.
- Find the OBDII connector in your car
Other
- Bruin Democrats
- California DMV Tax by the Mile Copy of LA Times articles on the subject.
