Scientific
visualization
Simulation and modeling is a huge
area in computers science that has helped many other fields’ progress.
Scientific visualization is a revolutionary technique used to display data and
offer alternative user interface design than most are use-to. I found and
article on line that explains this well. I also watched a TED talk on a
researches scientific visualization project. His talk consisted on two main
projects one where he show you how data can be processed a presented to a user
that hasn’t been done before. The other project was a collaborative work from
people all around the world that created still frames for a tribute video for
the late Johnny Cash. This new visualization technique mentioned first, visually
allows the user to see patterns and other phenomenon that you wouldn’t see in a
table or spread sheet of data. Some ethical issues arise from these new
techniques. Data mining plays an important role in this technique because you
need large sums of data and where do you get the data to run these simulations.
We have talked about data mining as a class and it implications. I would have
to say that this form of data mining is more ethically just than most because the
reason for the mining are educational and not for marketing purposes. The field of data mining offers much abstract visualization
related to these visualization types. In the TED talked I watched one of the
visual data displays he presented was a program that is trying to visually
represent the world, and the user interface makes it active and touch oriented.
I think anyone can upload pictures of places around the world and the program
combines all the pictures in a way it’s like walking around the world visually
but digitally, it’s really quit fascinating and when it comes to projects like
these that might have some ethical issues with them but ultimately benefit the
majority of society (utilitarianism). Check out the article below to find out
more and tell if you find any other ethical issues or if you those programs
should use data mining even if it is for good?
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