P2 Data Design & Theory
Mingyu Kim(0946275)
Kick-Off
Personal Experience (Background references)
A process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer.
The definition of Algorithm
So I feel like I'm the one of the people who experienced the COVID-19 on a personal level. When I went back to South Korea from the Netherlands, which was 28th of March, however from the 20th of March everyone who travelled or visited European countries had to self-quarantine in their apartment for 14 days, without getting any contact with the family. Due to the law by the Korean government I also had to do home quarantine in my room in South Korea for 14 days. It was very hard and tough, and it was physically and mentally very tough.
starting from 29th of March I first got the contact with the governor asking to measure my body temperature twice a day. At the start it was not big of an issue, but constantly getting the call from the governor started making me feel nauseous. On the day of 30th of March they asked me to install this one specific app that can track my GPS and so they can track me down, whether I'm in my house or not leaving my room.
For me being in the isolated room was being in constant pressure seeing the news showing how people are getting arrested for not obeying the quarantine policy that's authorized by the government.
Collecting data:
Each student collects 50 data related to Pre or post corona society also related to their personal corona experiences So, every day you will be collecting 10 data items.
Create a database: As group you will create one big database sheet filled with the datas.
Creating the algorithm: Based on the data I will have to each individual beings have to come up with some sort of algorithms to save or help people to solve the issue that they suffer with the current situation(post-corona society).
The Overall Assignment
Eefje
- The filled database will be explored, used and researched by students through self-created algorithms.
- Exploring a specific topic found in the database
- These topics, and their self-created algorithms= contextualise their post-corona society.
- Students will present their process, algorithm and contextualize their view on the post-corona society through their personal hotglue website. These websites is also used during the final assessments.
Goal:
- learning to create our own data, database + algorithm
- learning how to use data, databases and algorithms as storytelling tools
- Students will learn how to use data, databases and algorithms as ways to think about a post-corona society
Arjen
1: analogue algorithm
Create a set of rules that anyone can follow, which leads to an interesting conclusion. Also called pseudocode.
Example:
1: Create temporary storage for formula and data
2: Sort everything by dates
3: for
each row in the database:
- If source = me: select text data
- append selected text to storage
4: Show storage
-Filter and reorder
Use excel filters and reordering to create a new, smaller dataset that you find interesting.
Example: show only whatsapp messages, and order them by date.
Final Algorithm Advice:
-Design an algorithm ( a set of rules)
-Create context for your algorithm
-Possibly creating an APP
-Design paintings
Jeroen
-Choose two texts written by professionals that relate to the chosen niche
-Through the Critical Reading method, analyze, compare and dissect both texts
Result:
-Text of +- 500 words in which the student introduces the discourse surrounding their project via the two different texts and concludes with their own statement
Critical Reading Method:
What a text says?
-are you able to do a restatement of the original text. Do you understnd what the text says?
What a text does ?
-Are you able to reflect on what the text does through its statement?
is it offering examples? appealing for sympathy? making a contrast to clarify a point? what is the genre of the text, essay, interview, poem, scientific, personal, diary, etc?
What a text means?
-When seeing the text as a stand alone presentation, what does it mean?
What do you make of the text when you understand what the text says and you understand how the text makes its statement?
Can you conclude that the text is: offering too few examples? Is it too biased?
Is it too practical or scientific? is it denying any other problems or possibilities?
Picture of the certificate, which I got from the airport and the beginning of my emotional trip
During the quarantine situation that I got with COVID-19 I felt
many emotional flaws and it was very tough on a personal level.
That's why I wanted to create the data set that is personal from
me
DATA
This is data sheet in excel that I collected during P2 'data design'
The image above shows the emotion of myself about each significant data set that I collected, this clearly shows that I was feeling very uncomfortable toward the current situation that we are in with. The most negative feelings were concentrated during my time in quarantine in my room alone.
The image above is the same one as the previous image, but this one is from everyone's emotion about how they reacted toward the data about COVID-19 society. Funny thing is, unlike my result it seems very equally distributed, toward three different emotions.
However, this data cannot be 100% trusted because not all the people input the emotion part. Despite that fact I still think it's interesting
This was the conversation throughout the time during my quarantine in South Korea, reminding and reading it again made me think how desperate I was during that time, desperately wanting to get out of the room and escape. Also the emotionally very unstable it was, being tracked down by the governor and not allowed to leave the room made me feel like being in solitary prison and both socially and emotionally isolated.
“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”
IDEA/Algorithm
-Charles Bukowski (American-German poet)
Social distancing and emotional isolation (Theory)
Another thing that's also very hard is relationship, according to the statistics many people are breaking up due to the affect of the COVID-19, the one of the reason is because they are constantly together, due to circumstances, but in my case it's the opposite, because for me and my girlfriend we cannot see each other for months already, which is also very depressing.
Graph above is my personal data that I got from my phone. First of all the screen time of my phone is abnormally high, which I didn't realize before I looked at the data. This is very ironic, because I usually don't use my phone that much, but my behavior changed since COVID-19 happened in my life. Also the graph below shows a comparison between my walking behavior in February and March. It is very clear to see that the amount of steps that I made is completely different. Compared to March I moved almost 3 times more in February.
Asked "How is your life now and before COVID-19" and those are the answers I got of course some of them were joking around, however it also shows how people's perspective changed hugely since the COVID-19 happened.
Creating the new app that is able to video chat to random people in any occasion what people want to. After seeing the data that I collected and thinking about how to make self-quarantine better and video chat random people would be very interesting I felt. I do know that these kind of program is already existing, but I wanted to make the upgrade version where people don't have to worry about seeing random person's genitals and be able to socialize within the given application
Strict Registration Method!!
The basic algorithm to attract people will be
In this application I would like to apply the 'interest' function. I saw Apple Music was applied this method and they always offered me new music that fits my taste, but in this case this will help to find the person to video chat with who may has a similar interest.
"I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room"
When I looked at the set of data that I collected I felt the agony of myself suffering from loneliness, the video starts with narrator's voice saying "the world is going into lockdown and social distancing is becoming the norm", as we are in a world pandemic situation and knowing that the COVID-19 can be critical in our society I feel like we are also missing something big in ourselves as well. As the time goes by people are getting used to being isolated and being alone, which is bad but also recommended to be alone at the same time.
In the video they introduce a specific kind of Japanese people who are socially withdrawn and called as "Hikikomori" meaning 'pulling inward, being confined'. They have a very unique lifestyle most of them are over 40 years old and financially relying on their parents and spend their life inside of the house. According to the statistics, the Japanese government estimated that there are more than a million people who are socially withdrawn. Knowing that they are distanced from the society they are happy in their own way, the approach they have toward the society certainly differs from the regular people they claim that the society is forcing them to be somebody that they are not. I wouldn't entirely disagree however the way they live is certainly abnormal and in a way it's depressing. They are isolated into a room having no clear purpose nor the goal and just live on. The attitude they had was completely different from what 'Charles Bukowski' mentioned, they don't understand the concept of being lonely because they live alone socially isolated for more than half of their life and they adapted to be alone and for them being alone is the norm where they can be themselves.
Watching the video gives me a question in my head can human live alone not interacting with other people, because in the other resource article that I came across 'Social Disconnectedness, Perceived Isolation, and Health among Older Adults' is directing the completely the opposite way referring to the article it says "social isolation that pose health risks, including living alone, having a small social network, infrequent participation in social activities, and feelings of loneliness". In the article it explains that it is statistically proven that lack of social participation is directly related to one’s health as well and they encourage people to be more opened up about social behaviour, which I agree because myself personally felt that being alone is affecting me in a negative way, which caused my mental issue with sleeping and anxiety problems alongside with high blood pressure and kidney problem.
Both the text and the video shows very new sides of the social distancing behaviour where they decided to socially isolate themselves and enjoying the being, personally I couldn’t really understood their behaviour, but it was interesting discourse and seeing that some of those people trying to be back on the society convinced me that people don’t need social isolation also on the other hand the article was not completely related to COVID-19 pandemic, however it clearly identifies and proves what kind of effect that social isolation could bring into our society and how it affects one’s health. These two discourses are reflecting the same social isolation in different ways, which got me interested and I do conclude that social isolation is dangerous to our society as well and with given discourses I built the algorithm where people can be socially comfortable and not feeling accepted during both pandemic or normal situations.
Social Disconnectedness, Perceived Isolation, and Health among Older Adults (US national library of medicine national institutes of health)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2756979/
Japan: The Age Of Social Withdrawal (Al Jazeera English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aSLhz00U7s
Find your interest and share!
In order to register the person have to go through the registration method, which is divided into 4 different steps and among all of them the person need to register their identification card to be proven as a real person and also to prevent the sexual abuse within the app.
The speciality of this app will be choosing the place they are in. Before going into the video chat the person have to click the place that they are currently in, which I think will be very interesting.
Also, for instance in current situation people will be able to choose the category "quarantine" and will connect with other person who is also in the same situation doing the quarantine and people can communicate about the situation that they are in and make a bond out of it.
According to given data base negative is dominate I want to release that negative energy by natural selection by talking to some who may have similar interest and sharing the story and interact.
By Segmenting more feelings and ask people whether they want to embrace their feeling and share it then application will offer to the person. The algorithm that I'm trying to apply is very simple and straight forward. In the data-set when you write the feeling whether they are feeling positive, negative or neutral on the next column question will be asked whether they want to share their feeling or not and according to that answer data set will lead to the application link where you can do the random video chat with other person.
Meet your new friend!!!
After choosing the location the application will immediately try to connect with somebody who could be potential soul-mate
-Overall outcome
It was rather difficult and confusing to create the algorithm since I'm not used to it, I cannot proudly say that I made perfect algorithm however in overall result I'm satisfied.