Now that the library IT room is being updated, it would be a good time to look at trying to actually present some of the Data Detox workshops as listed below.

• Your Data Detox Starts Here
• Demystifying Your Data
• Declutter Your Phone with an App Cleanse
• Smartphones, Smart Habits

• Facts vs. Feelings: Keep Calm and Spot the Design Tricks

  Data Detox Workshops

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#Data,#Detox,#Workshop,#DataDetox,#StemGroup,#CodeClub

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Looks like the new Zoom terms and conditions now allow training AI on user content with no opt out. 🤣 See section 10.2

I am not too sure what data is shared, or how it is used, but big tech is clearly incapable of playing fairly, we have companies using all uploaded data to train AI, for example photos, text, code anything and usually the consent is given via terms and conditions so end users are so tied in to closed systems, the users auto consent weather they like it or not.

The fact that zoom is used by organisation such as child protection agencies also for me RAISES SERIOUS CONCERNS.

Please consider using an alternative that actually protects and respects privacy such as Big Blue Button

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#Zoom,#Privacy,#Data,#AI,#Replacement,#GDPR,#BigBlueButton.

This link to the NOAA tool was posted to fedi, by Getzler Lab at KenyonCollege. I am sharing here as it is looks like it could be really useful to others too.

• Climate Data Visualization

#NOAA,#Climate,#Data,#Visualization

This is a really important development in that it shows that the GDPR and the Law are to be followed. Massive win for our personal data protection. People are waking up and finally taking back control and see what big tech is really doing.

Fediverse article has been included below

• Meta prohibited from using personal data for advertising

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#EU,#Law,#GDPR,#Meta,#Advertising,#Fediverse,#Data,#Protection

With every one moving off Twitter, this is a really good article about how to use the GDPR to get your data removed from twitter

Michael Veale can be followed on Mastodon via @mikarv@someone.elses.computer with the profile at

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#Mastodon,#Twitter,#Data,#Deletion,#GDPR,UserRights

Please note that as of 18/11/2022, the Twitter situation is very fast moving. People are moving to Mastodon in large numbers, so by the time this is published, who knows what the situation will be.

The next Code Club session is on Saturday19th November. We will have the usual mix of stuff, and hopefully help new attendees out at the same time.

Code Club Links

• Code Club
  • Raspberry Pi Projects
  • Free Code Camp
  • CS50 course
  • Scratch
  • My Peertube Scratch videos
  • Hour of code
• Data Detox workshops
• Getting started with Mastodon
• Primary National Curriculum
• Secondary National Currciulum

Next session

• Next Code Club is Saturday 3rd December 2022.

Please contact Paignton Library for details.

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#CodeClub,,#Scratch,#Coding,#Data,#Privacy

TikTok says staff in China can access UK and EU user data

This has been discussed recently and it seems that our fears have been confirmed. The above has serious implications for privacy as well as data protection and perhaps safeguarding.

• BBC Article

It goes to show we really do need to get rid of big tech, as they simply can't be trusted and care more about data and the associated income than about users.

Related

• TikTok denies it could be used to track US citizens
• TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging

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#Privacy,#TikTok,#China.#Data,DataProtection

Further to recent videos on Jupyter notebook, I have been doing some simple experimenting to get the feel of this.]

This reat for writing and data visualisation. As the following two example screenshots show. I have not fully written the code here, but I have made modifications. The table now shows total rows and columns after I did some research and figured out how to count columns.

Presenting data as a table, using Pandas

Presenting data in graphical form, using MatPlotLib

Links

• Jupyter
• Matplotlib
• Numpy
• Numpy beginners guide

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#Jupyter,#JupyterNotebook,#Data,#Anaconda,#Python

So following on from previous posts, here is a Tutorial for the Pandas data framework (if that is the right term). Hopefully it is useful.

Links

• Pandas DataFrame
• Pandas Tutorial
• Pandas
• Paignton Library STEM Group

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#Python,#Data,#Pandas