Wrocław, Poland

Data and Society

Bachelor's
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⇑Data and Society at UWr

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: computer science
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: uni.wroc.pl/en/

⇑Test: Is Data and Society the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. Your social media feed keeps showing you more of the same. What do you make of it?

2. You spot a chart in the news that looks suspiciously dramatic. What do you do?

3. Which school subjects do you enjoy most?

4. You’ve been asked to put together a survey on how students spend their free time. What do you pay attention to?

5. Classes, reading and debates on how data shapes society will be in English, with classmates from many countries. How does that sound?

6. You hear that an algorithm used in recruitment favours one group of applicants. What do you make of it?

7. Your town wants to use data from residents’ phones to plan public transport. What’s your view?

8. Do you enjoy talking about social issues such as inequality or climate change?

9. Would you like to learn to analyse data with coding and statistics so you can study social trends?

10. What motivates you most to study Data and Society?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Data
Data ( DAY-tə, DAT-ə, DAH-tə) is a set of values of qualitative or quantitative variables.
Society
A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent of members. In the social sciences, a larger society often evinces stratification or dominance patterns in subgroups.
Society
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776).
Society
Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanille of society.
Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir, Volume I, p. 262. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 724–25.
Society
Society can imprison one's happiness
Katherine Szabo and Jenna Huskic, The Q Bus.
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