Being asked to write about the ethics of big data is a bit like being asked to write about the ethics of life. Big data is now integral to so many aspects of our daily lives-communication, social interaction, medicine, access to government services, shopping and navigation. Given this diversity, there is no one-size-fits-all framework for how to ethically manage your data. Wih that in mind, here I attempt to present seven ethical values for responsible data use.
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 December 2019.
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#21,415,391
of 34,376,207 outputs
Outputs from Giga Science
#1,231
of 1,496 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#213,758
of 374,434 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Giga Science
#39
of 43 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,376,207 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 37th percentile – i.e., 37% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,496 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.1. This one is in the 16th percentile – i.e., 16% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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