Ep18. Benson Chu, PhD candidate in information quality.

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In this conversation with Benson Chu we talk about his career path to becoming a Ph.D. candidate in #InformationQuality, information products, who owns "your" #data, and much more!

🤳🏼Definitions of some of the terms we use throughout the conversation:

Information quality is “the quality of the information that the systems produce” (DeLone & McLean, 1992).

As defined by dataversity, “Data Governance is a collection of practices and processes which help to ensure the formal management of data assets within an organization.” (source: https://www.dataversity.net/what-is-data-governance/)

Information quality is a subset of data governance.

Data governance and #informationquality are important in our lives to help us be aware of who we decide to share our information with and to contextualize the graphics we consume as front-end users.

🤳🏼Some cool things I learned:

Some of the formats in which data can be found in the back-end include idI and xml.

Data can be thought of as an information product that has an expiration date—after which it might not be useful anymore.

🤝His inspirational mission statement is to remember and to do as much good as he can. Help students, or whoever he’s involved with, realize their full potential in any way he can. Help someone along the way.

Benson believes anything can be learned or figured out. That might be done by learning a new skill or finding someone else that knows how to do it.

We briefly touched on one aspect of our identities, leaving the US made him feel that he was from the US. --------------------------

Final thoughts: Enjoy the journey. Embrace change. A lot of good things happen unexpectedly.

🤳🏼Topics to reflect on based on what we’ve learned from this episode:

Who owns your health and financial data or any information for that matter?

Who shares your data and how?

What are the privacy policies of the apps, sites, or agencies that you share your data with? Be careful where you are giving out your data.

When you are going to give out your data for something, ask yourself, is it necessary?

#WomenTransformingScience #SciComm#DataPrivacy

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