Yousuf 122425

Final project

Date: December 20, 2020

Assignment 6: The world is flat: Thomas Friedman (Voice record)

Date: December 10, 2020

Title: Sport and statistics in data story

Date: November 29, 2020

Assignment 7: Data story analyses

Date: November 29, 2020

(122425) In this data story https://www.statsperform.com/resource/digital-storytelling-using-sports-most-extensive-historical-database/ from UK, there are many information that help the people who use and visit this data story. First, in the header, there are several options such as media & tech analysis, betting & fantasy, team performance, AI in sport, information about company and how to contact with them in various social media platforms like twitter, facebook, linkedin and by email. Next, the headline of the data story written clearly with big letters and white color and this data story was written by Oliver Hopkins. Then, they started with a picture that helps the visitors to understand more about what data story talking about and small introduction. Also, they used sub headlines to make the data story more organized. Moreover, they used data chart and schedules to clarify the statistics in easy way. Finally, in the footer, there are contact stats perform, terms of use, privacy policy, cookie policy, sitemap, and do not sell my information.

This data story is talking about digital content and the power of data in storytelling, and they used different methods such as headline, pictures, sub headlines and data chart. The name of the organization is stats perform. The URL of the data story is https://www.statsperform.com/resource/digital-storytelling-using-sports-most-extensive-historical-database/ .The story is talking about the historical database of sport. The design and color are very clear and attractive. Also, the titles and date charts are clear and organized in a good way.

What I found in this data story is that I know how design the data story about sport and how to organize the information by using headline, sub headlines, and support it by pictures. I observe that this data story was not use search icon. On the other hand, in this data story they focused on variety of colors. I learned many information and statistics about sport history.

(102816) Statistics is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. Statistics deals with every aspect of data. Here we should know that connected China is a project that has a leader and an editor , Irene was the leader who was managing a global team that designed and developed the app over 18 months . In this site they had used many different structures he used the black and red colors , in the tag clouds or we can call it the word cloud . This was a useful way to build key word taxonomies . They made their data useful by using short sentences which make it easy to reach any information you want . They made a video to description how to use the data they give .

In paradise papers they summarized the data and put their data in the same colors , the black .but they used different types of fonts . After summarizing the data they put it in graphs .they used bar graphs and histograms. They compared numbers between different categories, so they used independents data which the changes in one of them don’t affect the others. As said the picture still worth a thousand words so the graphs is important to present data to the users. As Nike had made great effort to be in the front of the big companies.

Title: Space technology

Number of words: 250

Date: November 29, 2020

Definition

is technology developed by space science or the aerospace industry for use in astronautics, for purposes such as spaceflight or space exploration. Space technology includes spacecraft, satellites, space stations, and support infrastructure, equipment, and procedures and space warfare, and space is such a novel environment that attempting to work in it requires new tools and techniques. Many common everyday services such as weather forecasting, remote sensing, GPS systems, satellite television, and some long-distance communications systems critically rely on space infrastructure. Of the sciences, astronomy and Earth science benefit from space technology, and new technologies originating with or accelerated by space-related endeavors are often subsequently exploited in other economic activities.

Benefits

Cabin pressure monitor, Warning systems for aircraft cabin depressurization sometimes fail to monitor pressure changes that cause a slow, inconspicuous development of hypoxia, or oxygen deficiency, which can lead to unconsciousness. Advanced skin cream, Using a rotating vessel-wall bioreactor (which replicates microgravity conditions experienced in Earth’s orbit), NASA scientists have produced regenerative biomolecules from adult skin cells. Sleep-enhancing app, NASA-funded research has found that the body’s balance-regulating vestibular system induces sleep when subjected to low-amplitude vibration.

Risks

Current technology makes dangerous to get into space in the first place. Also, there are cost considerations to look at with space exploration. In addition, astronauts receive exposure to natural dangers while in space.

My understanding

Title: Clothing technology

Number of word: 280

Date: November 22, 2020

Definition

Involves the manufacturing, materials, and innovations that have been developed and used. The timeline of clothing and textiles technology includes major changes in the manufacture and distribution of clothing.

Benefits

Improving data accuracy, smart clothing could play a major role in proving how it should be done. That's because it's moving those sensors closer to the areas it needs to monitor. Also, most smart shirts or tops use the same reliable EKG heart rate monitoring technology used in chest straps like the Polar H10 and Garmin Run.

From the benefits also automatically track the training progress and monitor the physical state, continuously enhance workout efficiency and improve performance, and prevent training injuries and overload.

Risks

One of the ricks of clothing technology is the technical difficulties that designers face for this type of clothing, also the possibility of poor data quality and the technology in clothes being affected by climatic atmospheres such as humidity and rain due to the lack of waterproofing feature, moreover, some batteries in technological clothes do not have a long life.

While there are numerous advantages to quantifying the health, there are also many disadvantages. Having access to a large amount of data about the health can make users become obsessive or even hypochondriac. Much like Googling the symptoms may be misleading, having access to data, that could have errors, could lead to irrational fears and health scares.

My understanding

Title: Renewable energy technologies

Number of words: 283

Date: November 15, 2020

Definition

An interdisciplinary engineering science having to do with the efficient, safe, environmentally friendly, and economical extraction, conversion, transportation, storage, and use of energy, targeted towards yielding high efficiency whilst skirting side effects on humans, nature, and the environment.

Positives

Renewable energy technologies use resources straight from the environment to generate power, these energy sources include sunshine, wind, tides, and biomass.

renewable energy technologies require less overall maintenance than generators that use traditional fuel sources. This is because generating technology like solar panels and wind turbines either have few or no moving parts and don’t rely on flammable, combustible fuel sources to operate, fewer maintenance requirements translate to more time and money saved.

With renewable energy technologies, you can produce energy locally. The more renewable energy you’re using for your power needs, the less you’ll rely on imported energy.

Risks

Renewable energy technologies rely entirely on the weather, such as the sun and wind, to be able to harness any energy, in the event that the weather conditions are not good enough, renewable energy technologies will lack the ability to generate any electricity.

Renewable energy technologies are still hugely new in the market which means that they still lack much-needed efficiency. The lack of sufficient knowledge about how to harness these forms of energy effectively makes the installation and maintenance cost of these facilities very high, and these poses expected problems. Investors may also be shy about investing their money for fear of not getting returns too quickly.

My understanding

Benefits of technology in health

Title: Agriculture technology

Number of words: 257

Date: November 8, 2020

Definition

Applying modern technological tools to control plant and animal growth and production processes.

Positives

Increase crop productivity, reduce the consumption of water, fertilizers and agricultural pesticides, and thus obtaining cheaper products, preserving the environment by reducing the interaction of chemical pesticides with soil and ground water, and safety of workers in the agricultural field.

Saving human effort and facilitating the investment of larger areas of land, also, the farmer can add fertilizer or pesticides to the necessary amount in the necessary area of the cultivated land, also the farmer can treat some of the individual state of the plants thus saving great fertilizers and pesticides.

In addition to the above, robotic technology allows for better and more reliable monitoring of the crop growth process and thus better management of environmental and industrial resources.

Ricks

The use of modern agricultural technology has reduced the percentage of dependence on labor and the number of animals that were relied upon in the ancient agricultural processes. Also, the use of agricultural technology has polluted the environment with pesticides and the resulting impact on human health, as well as increased dependence on fossil fuel sources. In addition to the poisoning of some foodstuffs with fertilizers that are used in modern agricultural processes using agricultural technology.

My understanding

What I understood from this topic is that now farmers can work with less effort, more quality and speed because of the technology used in agriculture.

Title: Technology of sport

Number of words: 405

Date: November 1, 2020

Definition

It is technical scientific knowledge to exploit applicable research in designing and constructing various stadiums, producing innovative sports equipment and tools, searching for the best and most appropriate materials and working to improve conditions for athletic tools to achieve the finest sports achievements while saving energy, effort and time. At the same time, players are protected from serious or sudden injuries. Sports technology can also create the best equipment and auxiliary tools for training and develop the quality of tools and devices that compete for support in modern training.

Positives

The benefits that accrue to the use of sport cannot be limited to the technology that has become used by many, which made it easier to transfer matches and better analyze them, as there are some innovative things that have been exploited in the accuracy of the match results, such as the ball equipped with sensors that emits vibrations To judge when touching the bar or line.

In addition to the existence of a connection between the referee and an assistant for more accuracy in the results of the arbitration, which is one of the acceptable matters that has received approval from many, unlike football, technology has entered into other types of sports such as basketball, swimming, handball, tennis and other such things as possible To assist in the results of matches, or in their transmission and recording, or others.

Ricks

The most important negative of the presence of technology in football is that it will lose its excitement somewhat, as we go to the cameras in everything to determine the fate of our moves, mistakes and goals. Among its disadvantages is that the referee will lose confidence in himself and will not develop, and there will often not be a disparity in the levels of the referees, and he will be a mere blogger of the match’s events only. Also, the biggest negative point is that it will be specific to countries that have money only. Some poor African and Asian countries will not be able to provide this technology in their stadiums, and then the laws of football will vary and will lose part of their fair luster.

My understanding

Title: Intellectual property

Number of words: 256

Date: October 25,2020

Intellectual property:

Is the creativity of the mind such as, inventions, and what is related to art, symbols, names and images. Intellectual property is divided into two categories: Industrial Property includes patents for inventions, trademarks, etc. And copyright covers literary works, films, music, artistic works, and architectural design. So, intellectual property protection is critical to fostering innovation. Without protection of ideas, businesses and individuals would not reap the full benefits of their inventions and would focus less on research and development. Similarly, artists would not be fully compensated for their creations and cultural vitality would suffer as a result.

Why we should care about it?

It helps protect property, ideas and patents, etc. So that these things become private to their owner. Intellectual property helps it's owner to earned money by what he has intellectual property for. Also, any attempt to steal or distort them, the law protects the owner of the intellectual property.

How it's started, why?

The history of intellectual property is complex and fascinating. It begins in 500 BCE when Sybaris, a Greek state, made it possible for citizens to obtain a one year patent for any new refinement in luxury. Patent, trademark and copyright laws have become more complicated in the ensuing centuries but the intent remains the same. Countries establish intellectual property laws to foster creativity and to make it possible for the inventor to reap the benefits of their ingenuity.

What I understand from this topic:

Title: Drones

Number of words: 370

Date: October 18, 2020

Drones is a robot plane that can be controlled remotely by control device or by some of the systems in it.

Use of drones:

There are many uses for drones, such as remote sensing, such as using lidar (a dendritic sensing technique that measures the distance by lighting an object with a laser and then measuring what is reflected again) to measure crop height. The temperature sensors also detect the temperature of the livestock, the presence and temperature of water, and for monitoring and emergency response purposes. In addition, the visible spectrum sensors enable ground scanning and mapping.

Benefits of drones:

Drones minimize the obvious dangers and health risks, because it is enabling easy and safe inspections of tall and complex structures, especially the inspections of facilities such as oil and gas refineries, flare stacks, and pipelines. They eliminate the need for workers to physically access hostile environments, where factors such as height, wind, waves, weather, and radiation can lead to accidents or health issues. Drones can easily access difficult-to-reach areas while eliminating the need for a human to go there using the risky mechanical tools. Collection of in-depth and higher detail data, because the drones are able to navigate very close structures, allowing them to capture minute details. They can take high-resolution images or 4K video that clearly show cracks, damage, misplaced wires and other defects at elevations and angles that humans cannot, this allows for collection of more comprehensive data without exposing the inspection team to risks.

Ethical of drones:

In some countries, those who want to own drones are required to obtain a permit from the competent authorities because it's use varies from person to person. Drones can spy on people's privacy without their knowledge, and this is unethical. Also, drones sometimes take pictures of people without their will, which is also unethical.

Ricks of drones:

With technological advances, new hazards and exposures always come to light, including Injury to people or damage to property arising from drones that fall from above or crash into buildings or other aircraft. Also, privacy, as virtually all drones are equipped with cameras.

What I understand from this topic:

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Title: From watching on YouTube, Connected China & Paradise Papers series

Date: October 15, 2020

Number of words: 350

Reg Chua said: "You write a story that captures only 10 to 20 percent of what you reported.” His statement refers to the suffering of a large number of journalists due to the lack of freedom of the press in various countries, and this prevents the journalist from freely expressing the information he gathered on a specific topic, and Oman one of those countries.

connected China is a project launched by China that includes a news app based on a database of in-depth information for brief news which is developed by the most professional designers and unique energies. It is designed to uncover facts related to leaders, their lives, political relations, and administration. The same applies to the use of the Paradise Papers that reveal the secrets of states, great leaders, and the secrets of big brands such as: Nike. The audience wants to know the full facts from the press, so their long waiting times are exploited by browsing this application and knowing what the citizens want instead of using social media.

If I connect the new ways that are used in connected China and paradise paper with journalism in Oman, We have a large number of journalists who don’t work for newspapers and they are new to the world of journalism. We have professional journalists, but they don’t have enough freedom of expression. On the other hand, we have the citizen who wants to know the interpretation of everything he reads, and they sit for hours waiting in different places such as ministries to finish their transactions.

Title: Understanding the concept of cloud computing and the use of it

Number of words: 229

Date: October 11, 2020

The understanding:

A model that helps to access the network everywhere in an orderly and convenient way such as networks, servers, storage ... etc, which are available quickly and with less effort from the service provider.

The use of it:

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) delivers fundamental compute, network, and storage resources to consumers on-demand, over the internet, and on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provides customers a complete platform—hardware, software, and infrastructure—for developing, running, and managing applications without the cost, complexity, and inflexibility of building and maintaining that platform on-premises.

Hybrid cloud is a computing environment that connects a company’s on-premises private cloud services and third-party public cloud into a single, flexible infrastructure for running the organization’s applications and workloads. This unique mix of public and private cloud resources provides an organization the luxury of selecting optimal cloud for each application or workload and moving workloads freely between the two clouds as circumstances change.

Test and development is one of the best ways to use the cloud, and this requires having a budget and preparing the physical assets, manpower and then configure a special system.

What I understand from this topic:

Title: understanding the difference between databasesand business intelligence

Number of words: 350

Date: October 4, 2020

Definition of Databases

An information that is organized in specific ways so that it is easy to reference, control and update it.

Positives of Databases

There are some positives of databases, one of them is to Improve Data Sharing and Data Security, by organizing fast, efficient and accurate data access and sharing. The another positive is Increasing User Productivity by helping databases users make quick decisions that contribute to the long-term success or failure of the organization.

Risks of Databases

There are also several risks of databases we should take care from it, one of it is Publication Fails, databases lack care and constant verification of things they should not do and are not their functions. The another one is Broken Databases, lack of security, and fixes pose risks to databases and make them vulnerable to hackers. And also Stolen Database Backups one of the risks of databases, databases insiders who are employees of the company or organization can steal it from systems.

Business Intelligence

A set of processes and techniques that transform raw data to actionable important information contributes to achieving profitable business.

Positives of business intelligence

We have many positives related to business intelligence, one of it is Faster Analysis and Intuitive Dashboards, IB systems perform data processing in the cloud for the company or organization, and then the systems pull it to the data store, after that these systems analyze it. One of it’s positives is Increased Organizational Efficiency, BI provides leaders the ability to access data and gain a holistic view of their operations.

Risks of business intelligence

Also there are some risks related to business intelligence, one of it is Resistance to Change, most BI applications face resistance from some users because it did not provide enough information on projects. The another one is Failing to Account for Change, the culture and environment of any business is changeable, so IB must keep pace with the needs of the business enterprise.

What I think it is important to understand about this topic

Title: Hacker

Number of words: 350

Date: September 24, 2020

Technology has provided us many facilities in most fields in our life, but there are those who misused it, such as hackers. Hacker is considered one of the operations that is based on penetrating operating systems, networks, or programs. And these penetrations vary according to its purpose, and its purpose may be political, economic or social.

There were several motives for using the hacker started from its positive use in designing programs until they used the second face of it such as violating the privacy of people through their accounts in social media platforms, this violation aims to reveal the private pictures of people and the secrets of their conversations with their friends through these applications. The motives for using hackers is also for political purposes, and these hackers are often used by some politicians to spy on other politicians or a specific country to find out some hidden secrets.

All the motives that I had mentioned have results that vary between moral and social. The consequences of violating the privacy of people are the exposure of these people to blackmail, especially females, which leads to defamation of people who have been blackmailed, and this may expose them to social pressures by the community and causes them embarrassing societal situations. As for political purposes, these results are represented in exposing countries or politicians that have been spied on by these hackers, and these scandals may lead to the suspension of relations between the countries or the politicians.

There are many efforts made by some companies that own some social media platforms to protect user accounts from hacking, such as two-step verification, where a user-specific code is sent through which he can back to it in case his account has been hacked through various social media platforms.

Title: Hacker

Date: September 24, 2020

Technology has provided us many facilities in most fields in our life, but there are those who misused it, such as hackers. Hacker is considered one of the operations that is based on penetrating operating systems, networks, or programs. And these penetrations vary according to its purpose, and its purpose may be political, economic or social.

The beginnings of the hacker was not intended to penetrate operating systems, programs, networks, or whatever, but the aim was to design various programs that are the fastest of their kind, but then the hackers began to use the second face of it, so they began to penetrate the systems of commercial institutions and their networks until they reached to penetrate the personal accounts of users of social media programs.

There are many motives for using the hacker, such as violating the privacy of people through their accounts in social media platforms, this violation aims to reveal the private pictures of people and the secrets of their conversations with their friends through these applications. The motives for using hackers is also for political purposes, and these hackers are often used by some politicians to spy on other politicians or a specific country to find out some hidden secrets.

All the motives that I had mentioned have results that vary between moral and social. The consequences of violating the privacy of people are the exposure of these people to blackmail, especially females, which leads to defamation of people who have been blackmailed, and this may expose them to social pressures by the community and causes them embarrassing societal situations. As for political purposes, these results are represented in exposing countries or politicians that have been spied on by these hackers, and these scandals may lead to the suspension of relations between the countries or the politicians.