New Perspectives- Module 10 Summary
The final module of New Perspectives on the internet concerns the various types of data used and found on the internet, including Datasets, vaild data, spructured data, databases, etc. It also details varioys ways data is optimised and organized on the web including data cleansing, anonymization, aggregation, abstraction and decomposition.
Problem solving itself is essentially the process of decompositing a problem into multiple more manageable parts one by one to get a solution. This occurs in things like algebra and probability theory. I would also say this occurs in the process of structuring data. In the book, it mentions photos and the problem of organizing them manually so you can find them based on what each picture is about (say, photos of a grandparent). While AI such as in Google photos can do this for you today, I would say its still an example in that the AI is going through the process of organizing the images for you.
When networking data and solving complex problems, I’ve realized that federating or decentralizing data and information is a much better process to handle problems. This is because of two things: firstly, attacking a federated structure in, say, a cyberattack produces less issues because each link in the chain can handle themselves, while in a centralized model, when the base is struck the entire structure is destroyed. It also makes handling information more prone to errors. Examples would be radio towers during the cold war, vs the Soviet Union’s centrally planned economy.