In her TED talk, Susan Etlinger discusses how to make sense of the large amounts of data being generated. She makes two key insights: 1) How we think about data is as important as how we analyze it technologically, and we can shape how data impacts our lives; 2) Data does not create meaning on its own, meaning is created by people through assessing and analyzing data in context. She cautions that assessments can overvalue some metrics like words while undervaluing others like creative problem solving. Etlinger argues we need to focus more on critical thinking skills to properly understand data.

1. What Do We Do With
All This Big Data?
Ted Talk by Susan Etlinger

2. We get tons of information and data
scientists give a form to thema

3. Technology taps into a lot of our
deepest fear

4. We are not passive consumers of Data
and Technology

5. #1 Insight
 We have to pay as much
attention to how we think
as how we code.

6. Because of that we can shape the role it
plays in our lives and the way we make
meaning from it.

7. Size is not Everything. We have to consider
the speed at which it moves and the
variety of data types like text , image etc

8. Data is created by people and they
require context

9. #2 Insight
 Data does not create meaning ,
We do

10. It’s all about the assessment and analysis
of data we get that gives it a shape and
meaning

11. But these assessments and analysis can
overvalue one metric like verbal
communication and undervalue another
like creative problem solving

12. We have to spend more time focusing
on our critical thinking skills

13. So, Something doesn't mean it
happened because of it, necessarily.

14. THANK-YOU

15. Submitted for internship “Data Analytics”
under professor Sameer Mathur, IIML
BY,
S Sheshasai Venkatesh
Vasavi College of Engineering