Though many see downfalls to it, Big Data can be very beneficial to the medical field and a number of healthcare professions, especially nursing. It brings more positives than negatives, including precise drug therapy and the ability to directly link a disease to its cause, with this in mind, Big Data should used more often.
Garcia, Amy L. “How big data can improve health care.” American Nurse Today. 10. 7. (July 2015): 53-55. This article is about the usage of big data in the medical field, but specifically nursing. It is pretty short but it still contains a decent amount of solid information that will help me with my argument and forming … [Read more…]
When looking through some of the possible resources for the Big Data project, I came across a few that I feel I might use. One of the sources that I really enjoyed watching was Anne Milgram’s TED talk about improving criminal justice systems. This was interesting to me first of all because my dad is … [Read more…]
Dear Diary, Today is a Saturday, which means I’m going to be used a lot more throughout the day today than what I am during weekdays. No class for Mary means more attention for me! I love Saturdays because we always start the day by checking out what snapchats we received the night before while … [Read more…]
I agree with Greenfield’s claim about how teens are beginning to become overly concerned with their social lives, and as a result, defining their success in life by the amount of friends they have on Facebook, or followers they have on Instagram. My experiences with my friends and sister strongly support this claim, as I … [Read more…]
I really enjoyed reading this article by Jean Twenge. It was extremely interesting to me because she is talking about my generation, and I could relate to a lot of the points that she was bringing up. One of the claims Twenge made was that smartphones and what they bring, such as social media, are … [Read more…]
“Anyone in limelight must regularly navigate disconnected social contexts simultaneously, balancing what they say with how their diverse audiences might interpret their actions.” (31) “When teens face a collapsing context in physical environments, their natural response is to become quiet… sudden appearance of someone with social authority changes the context entirely.” (33) “I … [Read more…]
R.I.P to 11 year old Mary Toman, who lied about her birth year in order to legally be able to have a Facebook account. Thank you for all the good times. Your “Like this for a truth is and rate!” statuses will be greatly missed by many.
In Sherrie Turkle’s TED talk Connected, but Alone?, she claims a lot about how she feels about technology and what she believes that it is doing to us as humans and as individuals interacting with one another. The main idea of Turkle’s TED talk was that we, as individuals and as a group, are letting technology … [Read more…]
Mary Focused, caring, hard-working, respectful Lover of playing basketball Student of nursing Who feels anxious about taking this class Who hopes to learn how to become a better writer in this class Who fears the workload in this class Who loved the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar as a child Who read the Hunger Games … [Read more…]
