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From the Ted Talk by Susan Etlinger: What do we do with all this big data?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


But it doesn't have to be this way. We are not passvie consumers of data and tlcehgonoy. We shape the role it plays in our lives and the way we make meaning from it, but to do that, we have to pay as much attention to how we think as how we code. We have to ask qoiusetns, and hard questions, to move past counting things to utdasenrnindg them. We're constantly bombarded with stories about how much data there is in the world, but when it comes to big data and the challenges of interpreting it, size isn't everything. There's also the speed at which it mevos, and the many viraietes of data types, and here are just a few examples: images, text, video, audio. And what unites this dirptaase types of data is that they're created by people and they require context.

Open Cloze


But it doesn't have to be this way. We are not _______ consumers of data and __________. We shape the role it plays in our lives and the way we make meaning from it, but to do that, we have to pay as much attention to how we think as how we code. We have to ask _________, and hard questions, to move past counting things to _____________ them. We're constantly bombarded with stories about how much data there is in the world, but when it comes to big data and the challenges of interpreting it, size isn't everything. There's also the speed at which it _____, and the many _________ of data types, and here are just a few examples: images, text, video, audio. And what unites this _________ types of data is that they're created by people and they require context.

Solution


  1. questions
  2. varieties
  3. passive
  4. technology
  5. disparate
  6. understanding
  7. moves

Original Text


But it doesn't have to be this way. We are not passive consumers of data and technology. We shape the role it plays in our lives and the way we make meaning from it, but to do that, we have to pay as much attention to how we think as how we code. We have to ask questions, and hard questions, to move past counting things to understanding them. We're constantly bombarded with stories about how much data there is in the world, but when it comes to big data and the challenges of interpreting it, size isn't everything. There's also the speed at which it moves, and the many varieties of data types, and here are just a few examples: images, text, video, audio. And what unites this disparate types of data is that they're created by people and they require context.

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Important Words


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