For this linking assignment, I am going to compare and contrast my work to Joseph’s. Surprisingly, he found it fairly easy to use Palladio to look at different groupings of data. Personally, it was difficult for me, and figuring out how to use the site took some time and investment. However once I figured it out, I could better manipulate the data looking for meaning.
I appreciated how Joseph untangled the data and his attempt at interpreting it and giving what he is seeing meaning. I could not help but notice as I was reading his interpretations, I was questioning them. I wondered how he was able to come to the conclusion that a group chose certain songs due to their impressive sounds. Near the end of his analysis, he shared how meaning making with data that lacks context was extremely difficult, and the explanations he has provided would likely be wrong or incomplete. It was here that Joseph and I had the same epiphany. We both came to the conclusion that it is impossible to derive true meaning from data without more context. Additionally, we both identified how our online activity, when tracked, can create data points. This plethora of data points is then analyzed by algorithms, looking to derive meaning from them for the purposes of selling us a product.
