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The Systems Thinker - Introduction to Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker - 0 views

thesystemsthinker.com/troduction-to-systems-thinking UX Design Explainer Papers
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  • This volume explores these questions and introduces the principles and practice of a quietly growing field: systems thinking. With roots in disciplines as varied as biology, cybernetics, and ecology, systems thinking provides a way of looking at how the world works that differs markedly from the traditional reductionistic, analytic view. Why is a systemic perspective an important complement to analytic thinking? One reason is that understanding how systems work – and how we play a role in them – lets us function more effectively and proactively within them. The more we understand systemic behavior, the more we can anticipate that behavior and work with systems (rather than being controlled by them) to shape the quality of our lives.
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Publishing with purpose? Reflections on designing with standards and locating user enga... - 0 views

www.timdavies.org.uk/...s-and-locating-user-engagement
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  • Purpose should govern the choice of dataset to focus on Standards should be the primary guide to the design of the datasets User engagement should influence engagement activities ‘on top of’ published data to secure prioritised outcomes New user needs should feed into standard extension and development User engagement should shape the initiatives built on top of data
  • The call for ‘raw data now‘ was not without purpose: but it was about the purpose of particular groups of actors: not least semantic web reseachers looking for a large corpus of data to test their methods on. This call configured open data towards the needs and preferences of a particular set of (technical) actors, based on the theory that they would then act as intermediaries, creating a range of products and platforms that would serve the purpose of other groups. That theory hasn’t delivered in practice
  • They describe a process that started with a purpose (“get better bids on contract opportunities”), and then engaged with vendors to discuss and test out datasets that were useful to them.
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  • But in seeking to be generally usable, standard are generally not tailored to particular combinations of local capacity and need. (This pairing is important: if resource and capacity were no object, and each of the requirements of a standard were relevant to at least one user need, then there would be a case to just implement the complete standard. This resource unconstrained world is not one we often find ourselves in.)
  • The Open Contracting Partnership, which has encouraged governments to purposely prioritise publication of procurement data for a number of years now,
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      fionntan on 12 Jun 20
       
      how does the open contracting partnership relate to models?
  • The Open Contracting Partnership, which has encouraged governments to purposely prioritise publication of procurement data for a number of years now,
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If We're Not Careful, Tech Could Hurt the Fight against COVID-19 - Scientific American ... - 0 views

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  • Call out the risks of new technologies. Understanding technologies often makes you uniquely equipped to explain their risks. Investigate the technologies others are proposing, make sure you understand them, and if necessary sound the alarm bells.
  • Respond to technological and nontechnological calls to action.
  • Finally, consider whom your project shifts power away from and whom it shifts power to. Ownership of data is a form of power: Do you provide meaningful opt-in to data collection? Whom are you giving access to this data?
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  • 4. How does your technology shift power?
  • As an example, see this paper on the privacy implications of contact tracing and the authors’ explicit statement of how their ideas should and should not be used. In many cases, your technology’s limitations mean it should not influence policy decisions; state this up front and repeat it as necessary. 
  • these spaces often obscure the voices of the most vulnerable—including communities without access to technology; people who are unhoused, in nursing homes or in prisons; and those who cannot speak freely. Find people and organizations that center vulnerable communities. Listen carefully. What do they think is most pressing? Do they want you to build your technology for them, with them, or not at all?
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      fionntan on 04 Jun 20
       
      Interesting to think about this mobility data. What is and isn't collected about vulnerable people?
  • 1. Are you listening to experts and vulnerable communities?
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Italian contact tracing app open source on GitHub - 0 views

github.com/...immuni-documentation Coronavirus Contact-Tracing Apps Technology Open-Source
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    Immuni is a technological solution that centres on an iOS and Android smartphone app. It helps us to fight the COVID-19 epidemic by notifying users at risk of carrying the virus as early as possible-even when they are asymptomatic. These users can then isolate themselves to avoid infecting others, and seek medical advice. Immuni's design and development are based on six main principles: utility, accessibility, accuracy, privacy, scalability, and transparency.
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Use of apps in the COVID-19 response and the loss of privacy protection | Nature Medicine - 0 views

www.nature.com/...s41591-020-0928-y Coronavirus Research Apps Nature
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    Mobile apps provide a convenient source of tracking and data collection to fight against the spread of COVID-19. We report our analysis of 50 COVID-19-related apps, including their use and their access to personally identifiable information, to ensure that the right to privacy and civil liberties are protected.
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GitHub - reichlab/covid19-forecast-hub: Projections of COVID-19, in standardized format - 0 views

github.com/...covid19-forecast-hub Coronavirus Models Data Code Github Standards
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    The goal of this repository is to create a standardized set of data on forecasts from teams making projections of cumulative and incident deaths and incident hospitalizations due to COVID-19 in the United States.
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Coronavirus Models Are Nearing Consensus, but Reopening Could Throw Them Off Again - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...coronavirus-models.html Models Coronavirus Standards
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    The researchers say that they are getting better at understanding the dynamics of the pandemic as Americans largely shelter in place, and that improved knowledge may explain the growing consensus of the models. The near-term future of the pandemic is also a little easier to imagine, with deaths flattening instead of growing rapidly. There may be some peer pressure, too. Nicholas Reich, a biostatistician at the University of Massachusetts who has led a project to standardize and compare model outputs, said he worried about the temptation to "herd" outputs. "Probably no one wants to have the really super-outlying low model or the super-outlying high model," he said.
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Prediction models for diagnosis and prognosis of covid-19 infection: systematic review ... - 1 views

www.bmj.com/...bmj.m1328 Coronavirus Models Research Papers
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    This review indicates that proposed models are poorly reported, at high risk of bias, and their reported performance is probably optimistic. Immediate sharing of well documented individual participant data from covid-19 studies is needed for collaborative efforts to develop more rigorous prediction models and validate existing ones. The predictors identified in included studies could be considered as candidate predictors for new models.
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Covid Tracing Tracker - Read Only - Google Sheets - MIT Technology Review - 0 views

docs.google.com/...edit Coronavirus Data Spreadsheet Surveillance
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  • fionntan on 11 May 20
     
    Google sheet of MIT Tech Review article
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Elsevier - Novel Coronavirus Information Center - 0 views

www.elsevier.com/...coronavirus-information-center Coronavirus Research
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  • fionntan on 07 May 20
     
    Sent by Elsevier. "our COVID resource center, incl. text-minable research publications, which we made available also for a COVID Kaggle competition: . Feel free to make use of the information provided in the resource center. It's open. If you you'd like to acknowledge the source and support, we'd appreciate it."
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