The app claimed to be collecting
data for academic research, and users were not aware of its true purpose.
The app claimed to be collecting
data for academic research, and users were not aware of its true purpose.
In 2013, a third - party app developer named Aleksandr Kogan had access to 50 million Facebook users»
data for academic research, and without permission, he distributed it to a consulting firm with ties to the Trump Administration, Cambridge Analytica.
Not exact matches
That all makes it a treasure trove of health
data for scientists, and it's resulted in more than 1,000
academic research projects about life choices and health.
CNBC, which earlier reported the firm's suspension, said people had been misled into believing the quizzes would be used
for nonprofit
academic research; instead, the
data was sold to marketers.
Calls
for new digital privacy rights in American law have increased after disclosures that the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica obtained
data on more than 87 million Facebook users from quizzes that were supposed to be
for academic research.
And while Kogan maintained he had never drawn a salary from the work he did
for SCL — saying his reward was «to keep the
data», and get to use it
for academic research — he confirmed SCL did pay GSR # 230,000 at one point during the project; a portion of which he also said eventually went to pay lawyers he engaged «in the wake» of Facebook becoming aware that
data had been passed to SCL / CA by Kogan — when it contacted him to ask him to delete the
data (and presumably also to get him to sign the NDA).
Jackie has worked
for governmental,
academic, advocacy and commercial organizations in delivering ESG - related
research and analytical data solutions and is a graduate of Rhodes University, Said Business School (University of Oxford), a Rhodes Scholar, and former Junior Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Business Research, University of Ca
research and analytical
data solutions and is a graduate of Rhodes University, Said Business School (University of Oxford), a Rhodes Scholar, and former Junior
Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Business Research, University of Ca
Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre
for Business
Research, University of Ca
Research, University of Cambridge.
Facebook cut off Cubeyou after a CNBC report said that the small
data analytics company had misled people into believing its quizzes would be used
for nonprofit
academic research.
The Bank has required the securitisation
data to be made available to permitted
data users (such as those who intend to use the
data for investment, professional or
academic research).
Facebook has said little about Kogan besides asserting that he lied when he claimed his
data - gathering would be used only
for academic research.
Many
academics partner with Facebook because the social network will not give them access to the
data they seek unless the
research is conducted jointly, and some researchers have raised concerns that Facebook is creating a conflict of interest
for them.
But Kogan's
academic association with Facebook, around the same time that he was taking
data to hand off to Cambridge Analytica, raises questions about how user consent was obtained, the line between
academic research and corporate marketing — and how scholars can sometimes use
data for commercial and political ends.
Though the users were assured that this information was gathered
for academic research, but the
data was leveraged by Cambridge Analytica to target and influence voters with specific personality types.
Others are astringently
academic analyses of survey
research data accumulated by the National Opinion Research Center, with which he has been connected for
research data accumulated by the National Opinion
Research Center, with which he has been connected for
Research Center, with which he has been connected
for decades.
The sheer volume of
data that is now being created presents a significant resource that can be used
for the mutual benefit of organisations and
academic research.
Whistleblower Christopher Wylie, who worked with Cambridge Analytica, claimed it amassed the
data of millions of people without their consent through a personality quiz on Facebook called This is Your Digital Life that was created by an
academic for Global Science
Research.
But Kogan's
academic association with Facebook, around the same time that he was taking
data to hand off to Cambridge Analytica, raises questions about how user consent was obtained, the line between
academic research and corporate marketing — and how scholars can sometimes use
data for commercial and political ends.
The Observer adds that Kogan, the Russian - American
academic who collected the
data, «has previously unreported links to a Russian university and took Russian grants
for research.»
He'd presented the app to Facebook and to its users as a project gathering
for academic research, but then had turned around and given it to a company that had not been named or identified, and which sought to use the
data for political, not
academic, purposes.
From this base, visit Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology campus to meet with local researchers and
academics to learn about coral restoration, trap insects and input
data into a
research project and visit the «sustainable homes» development project — a blueprint
for sustainable living.
But, he continues, the considerable time needed
for successfully «building and documenting [the] software tools» essential to big -
data research «is time spent not writing
research papers, which are the primary currency of the
academic reward structure.»
Schmidt,
research group leader at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Zurich and
academic associate
for the Swiss Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Programme, says, «Our mark - and - recapture
data shows that only 13 percent of the infected salamanders survive over a 10 - day period.»
Commercial work now accounts
for 93 percent of the archaeological
research done in the United Kingdom, and
academics must take note of the
data generated by contract units, says Kenneth Aitchison, head of projects and professional development at the Institute
for Archaeologists, the body representing commercial archaeologists in Britain.
HGS, he claims, is ready to share
data and reagents with them: «We would not block anyone in the
academic world from using this
for research purposes.»
National Center
for Medical Information and Knowledge (NCMIK) Support easier utilization of health and medical information by establishing a
data sharing system built upon the professional and
academic information that covers medical science fields and the government's
research outcomes.
Essentially the goal was to determine what
data is required
for the
academic research community to develop a plan to make postdoctoral pay / benefits commensurate with work training and experience, better align trainee expectations with job outcomes, and increase diversity in the
academic research environment.
The agencies responsible
for NEHRP collaborate extensively with the
academic, public, and private sectors to produce critical
research and
data that directly support improvements to building codes, and community and commercial planning.
In the 2007 - 2008
academic year,
for instance, awards supported
research on topics such as the imaging of brain regions involved in the learning of words, the relation between memory and the growth of brain cells in adulthood, the neural activity behind birdsongs and the processing of sensory
data in the brains of infants at risk
for autism.
Vint Cert's highest aspiration
for the tool he was creating through the»70s and»80s was that
academics might use it to share
research data.
Although some
research finds that such benefits exist, the available
data have not permitted researchers to confirm the causal effects of desegregation on nonacademic benefits
for the same reasons that it is difficult to produce convincing findings on
academic benefits: the nonrandom sorting of students among school environments and the real possibility that forced busing may produce effects very different from those of living in a racially or socioeconomically mixed community.
Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education
Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and
academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning,
academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed
for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions,
for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot
data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot
data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences
for perspective - taking, complex reasoning,
academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum
for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum
for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and
academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).
For the most part, he says, the past decade of
research on the accountability movement in education has focused on two things: whether or not the tests increased
academic achievement, and how high - stakes testing has led to certain behaviors such as teaching to the test or manipulating the
data.
In a new study presented at the this year's fall
research conference of the Association
for Public Policy Analysis and Management in Chicago, we used
data from CORE Districts, to assess whether there are systematic mindset differences present in the US population within and across schools, and whether holding a growth mindset predicts
academic achievement gains of students.
COACHE The Collaborative on
Academic Careers in Higher Education is a
research group that uses
data to make the recruitment and management of faculty talent more effective
for higher education institutions.
Fourteen percent of Michigan's charters are both low - performing and do little to improve student achievement, according to Stanford University's Center
for Research on Educational Outcomes; while just one of the 11 charters shut down in 2015 - 2016 were closed because of
academic failure, according to
data from the Wolverine State's Department of Education.]
Establish procedures to process and place eligible students: develop screening programs in areas of
academics and behavior; use
data to determine eligibility
for special education services; and provide
research - based instruction and interventions of increasing intensity of supports to benefit all students
The National Center
for Analysis of Longitudinal
Data in Education
Research (CALDER) took a deep look at the impact of high turnover on student
academic achievement.
Meanwhile, TAPTM: The System
for Teacher and Student Advancement, adopted by districts across the country, created a system of master teachers and mentor teachers to help alleviate some of the time burden on principals by providing full - or part - time release hours to conduct teacher evaluations; provide extensive feedback and instructional demonstrations; identify context - relevant,
research - based instructional strategies; analyze student
data; create school - wide
academic achievement plans; and interact with parents.
Dr. Kearns, Assistant Professor of Special Education of Educational Psychology and
Research Scientist, Center
for Behavioral Education and
Research at the University of Connecticut has created an easy - to - use Excel - based progress monitoring tool to help educators (easily) gather
academic progress monitoring
data (Kearns, 2016).
The researchers used a blend of
data collection methods from action
research and linguistic anthropology to examine the learning environment in which students (ages four to seven) worked with a professional visual artist, one day per week
for an entire
academic school year.
Since many students find trouble with
researching for finding details and
data to feed their
research papers and many other
academic papers, they go
for an easy way to get done their assignments.
When used consistently with fidelity as part of an MTSS model, FAST provides teachers with exceptional and timely
data to identify students at risk
for academic and behavioral difficulty, as well as supports to implement the appropriate
research - based intervention and instruction at the right time and build capacity
for data - based decision - making.
Panel Discussion Tuesday, 10 October, 3.15 — 4.30 pm Location: Westin Grand Frankfurt Moderated by: Tracey Armstrong, CEO, Copyright Clearance Center Panelists include: • Gemma Hersh, VP, Policy and Communications, Elsevier • Mandy Hill, Managing Director,
Academic Publishing, Cambridge University Press • Leon Heward - Mills, Global Publishing Director, Taylor & Francis Group • Sonya T. Smith, PhD., Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, Howard University To Diversity to Improve Scholarly
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For data - driven, practical solutions, consider knowledge engineering.
There is now 32 years of peer - reviewed
academic research (based on 140 years of return
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for even a single long - term investor.
The boards and blogs were formed to help people learn how to retire early and how to invest effectively, not
for this Get Rich Quick garbage that the internet sewer rats have been insisting never ever, ever, ever be questioned by those who have taken a look at the historical
data or the
academic research.
We look
for data and statistics collected by reliable sources, opinions of experts whom we trust, and
research conducted by
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According to reporting by CNBC, Cubeyou collected
data from Facebook users through personality quizzes «
for non-profit
academic research» developed with Cambridge University, and then sold the
data to advertisers.
«Most
Academic Research Is Low - Value Rent - Seeking
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If you asked them
for «any record, whether in paper, electronic, or other format, that identifies the source of raw
data used
for PAPER X — including records found in the
research notebooks or other papers of Dr. Jones or other UEA personnel...» and they refused to provide access to Jones's papers b / c of
academic freedom — that would be a good issue to appeal.