Kate Crawford
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30 appearances
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first heard Jun 2014
last heard Oct 2014
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And they're always trying to think of more efficient ways to figure out where the potholes are.
So I first heard about this new app that was being released by the city of Boston called Street Bump that you could download to your smartphone.
And what it would do is it would track your accelerometer data, which is the way that your phone is moving in space, along with your GPS, which gives the coordinates of where you are, so that it could actually passively detect every time you would hit a pothole as you were driving around the streets of Boston.
And this was actually a very clever idea.
Well, great.
People in lower income groups and older citizens, that's people over the age of 60, are less likely to have smartphones.
Therefore, in the areas where we have those populations living, we're actually getting less data about their roads.
And that might mean then that a city could say, well, we're not getting data about any kinds of potholes there.
We don't need to send out the road repair crews.
What's so interesting about this story is that I think it's a kind of parable for big data, is that when we start looking to smartphones and apps, we always have to think about who is being left out, who is not in that data set, who is not being represented.
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