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Tech Addiction and Smartphone Dependency: Latest Science and Statistics
How do we choose to have our new and rapidly evolving tools and capabilities impact our lives as individuals, organizations and as a global society? In order to make a smart choice, it is imperative that we have a good understanding of the impact digital technology already has or _can have _on our lives. What can we say with a degree of certainty?
If you work in tech, or you are interested in technology — or basically, if you’re human and you own a smartphone/laptop/pc — this is relevant to you.
Regardless of the debate if digital technology is more helpful or more harmful: the technology and how we use it does have a significant impact on our lives, for better or for worse. Let’s make a conscious decision for what we want that impact to be.
The impact of digital technology on events in the year 2020
Digital technology is now at the core of human endeavors and of history as it unfolds. The spread of Covid-19 was monitored using digital technologies and it was the simple, lowly smartphone that brought to light the blatant murder of American citizens by the very police officers sworn to protect them.
The social unrest and political actions ensuing can be either exacerbated or de-escalated using the same technological capabilities.
Smart, digital technology is going to help us restore our work life and the global economy over the upcoming months or years.
The technology in and of itself is neutral.
26% of car accidents in US were caused by smartphone distraction in 2014. Smartphone usage is linked to a decrease in focus and productivity in workers. Studies have linked the increase of suicide rates in young people to an increase in the use of social media and mobile phones.
Being distracted and anything other than in the moment has become the norm.
At the same time, digital technology made the Arab Spring possible.
Digital technology makes our lives so much easier in so many ways; it makes it easier to get where you’re going, to know what weather it’s going to be.
It’s making it possible for you and I to connect, right now.
The technology in and of itself is neutral. The problem, as the Architect reminds Neo in The Matrix, is choice.
How do we choose to have our new and rapidly evolving tools and capabilities impact our lives as individuals, organizations and as a global society?
Understanding the impact of digital technology
In order to make a choice, it is imperative that we have a good understanding of the impact digital technology already has or _can have _on our lives.
In order to do that, in this article, I have compiled research on the trends in (over)usage of digital technology; the positive and negative effects it has, and some philosophical discussion on the impact on our psyche to understand if we should be speaking about “dependency” or addiction in the first place.
And broader, to understand the general impact of tech in our lives better.
Addiction or dependency in this article will be used only as a proxy for the worst or most detrimental effects technology can have on us. If we understand tech addiction better, and we understand the general positive and negative effects of technology better, I’m sure we can all make better choices.
On a personal note, I wrote a book on the effect of digital technology on our lives. I wrote this book partly because I discovered I was heavily “addicted” to my smartphone and was headed toward burnout. When speaking to people about this book, I often have a hard time explaining the importance and relevance of the subject.
I hope this article will help me drive my point home.
What is my point? My point is that we need to make a conscious, balanced choice as to how we allow technology to affect us.
#mental-health #mindfulness #ethical-responsibility #hackernoon-top-story #data science
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15 Latest Data Science And Analyst Jobs To Apply For
For this week’s latest data science job openings, we have come up with a curated list of job openings for data scientists and analysts from last week.
Data Scientists Openings
Data Science Lead at Paytm Money
Location: Bangalore
Responsibilities:
- Work with massive data from multiple applications and millions of customers.
- Own the application of machine learning algorithms.
- Design and evaluate new approaches for handling high-volume real-time data streams in a machine learning environment, etc.
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From Science to Data Science
- Introduction and Hypothesis
I loved to work as a scientist. There is a deep feeling of completion and happiness when you manage to answer why. Finding out why such animal would go there, why would they do this at that time of the year, why is that place so diverse… This applies to any kind of field. This is the reason why I want to advocate that if you are a scientist, you might want to have a look at what is called Data Science in the technological field. Be aware, I will not dwell in the details of titles such as Data engineer, data analyst, data scientist, AI researcher. Here, when I refer to Data Science, I mean the science of finding insights from data collected about a subject.
So, back to our **_why. _**In science, in order to answer your why, you will introduce the whole context surrounding it and then formulate an hypothesis. “The timing of the diapause in copepods is regulated through their respiration, ammonia excretion and water column temperature”. Behaviour of subject is the result of internal and external processes.
In marketing, you would have to formulate similar hypothesis in order to start your investigation: “3-days old users un-suscribes due to the lack of direct path towards the check-out”. Behaviour of subject is the result of internal (frustration) and external (not optimized UE/UI) processes.
Although I would have wanted to put that part at the end, as for any scientific paper, it goes without saying that your introduction would present the current ideas, results, and hypotheses of your field of research. So, as a researcher, you need to accumulate knowledge about your subject, and you go looking for scientific articles. The same is true for techs as well. There are plenty of scientific and non-scientific resources out-there that will allow you to better understand, interpret and improve your product. Take this article, for instance, Medium is a wonderful base of knowledge on so many topics! But you could also find passionating articles on PloS One on Users Experience or Marketing Design and etc.
2. Material and Methods
As a Marine biologist and later an Oceanographer, I took great pleasure to go at the field and collect data (platyhelminths, fish counts, zooplankton , etc…). Then we needed to translate the living “data” into numeric data. In the technological industry, it is the same idea. Instead of nets, quadrats, and terrain coverage, you will setup tracking event, collect postbacks from your partners and pull third-parties data. The idea is the same, “how do I get the information that will help me answer my why”. So a field sampling mission and a data collection planning have a lot in common.
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How To Build A Data Science Career In 2021
For this week’s data science career interview, we got in touch with Dr Suman Sanyal, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at NIIT University. In this interview, Dr Sanyal shares his insights on how universities can contribute to this highly promising sector and what aspirants can do to build a successful data science career.
With industry-linkage, technology and research-driven seamless education, NIIT University has been recognised for addressing the growing demand for data science experts worldwide with its industry-ready courses. The university has recently introduced B.Tech in Data Science course, which aims to deploy data sets models to solve real-world problems. The programme provides industry-academic synergy for the students to establish careers in data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
“Students with skills that are aligned to new-age technology will be of huge value. The industry today wants young, ambitious students who have the know-how on how to get things done,” Sanyal said.
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Tech Addiction and Smartphone Dependency: Latest Science and Statistics
How do we choose to have our new and rapidly evolving tools and capabilities impact our lives as individuals, organizations and as a global society? In order to make a smart choice, it is imperative that we have a good understanding of the impact digital technology already has or _can have _on our lives. What can we say with a degree of certainty?
If you work in tech, or you are interested in technology — or basically, if you’re human and you own a smartphone/laptop/pc — this is relevant to you.
Regardless of the debate if digital technology is more helpful or more harmful: the technology and how we use it does have a significant impact on our lives, for better or for worse. Let’s make a conscious decision for what we want that impact to be.
The impact of digital technology on events in the year 2020
Digital technology is now at the core of human endeavors and of history as it unfolds. The spread of Covid-19 was monitored using digital technologies and it was the simple, lowly smartphone that brought to light the blatant murder of American citizens by the very police officers sworn to protect them.
The social unrest and political actions ensuing can be either exacerbated or de-escalated using the same technological capabilities.
Smart, digital technology is going to help us restore our work life and the global economy over the upcoming months or years.
The technology in and of itself is neutral.
26% of car accidents in US were caused by smartphone distraction in 2014. Smartphone usage is linked to a decrease in focus and productivity in workers. Studies have linked the increase of suicide rates in young people to an increase in the use of social media and mobile phones.
Being distracted and anything other than in the moment has become the norm.
At the same time, digital technology made the Arab Spring possible.
Digital technology makes our lives so much easier in so many ways; it makes it easier to get where you’re going, to know what weather it’s going to be.
It’s making it possible for you and I to connect, right now.
The technology in and of itself is neutral. The problem, as the Architect reminds Neo in The Matrix, is choice.
How do we choose to have our new and rapidly evolving tools and capabilities impact our lives as individuals, organizations and as a global society?
Understanding the impact of digital technology
In order to make a choice, it is imperative that we have a good understanding of the impact digital technology already has or _can have _on our lives.
In order to do that, in this article, I have compiled research on the trends in (over)usage of digital technology; the positive and negative effects it has, and some philosophical discussion on the impact on our psyche to understand if we should be speaking about “dependency” or addiction in the first place.
And broader, to understand the general impact of tech in our lives better.
Addiction or dependency in this article will be used only as a proxy for the worst or most detrimental effects technology can have on us. If we understand tech addiction better, and we understand the general positive and negative effects of technology better, I’m sure we can all make better choices.
On a personal note, I wrote a book on the effect of digital technology on our lives. I wrote this book partly because I discovered I was heavily “addicted” to my smartphone and was headed toward burnout. When speaking to people about this book, I often have a hard time explaining the importance and relevance of the subject.
I hope this article will help me drive my point home.
What is my point? My point is that we need to make a conscious, balanced choice as to how we allow technology to affect us.
#mental-health #mindfulness #ethical-responsibility #hackernoon-top-story #data science
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'Commoditization Is The Biggest Problem In Data Science Education'
The buzz around data science has sent many youngsters and professionals on an upskill/reskilling spree. Prof. Raghunathan Rengasamy, the acting head of Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI, IIT Madras, believes data science knowledge will soon become a necessity.
IIT Madras has been one of India’s prestigious universities offering numerous courses in data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence in partnership with many edtech startups. For this week’s data science career interview, Analytics India Magazine spoke to Prof. Rengasamy to understand his views on the data science education market.
With more than 15 years of experience, Prof. Rengasamy is currently heading RBCDSAI-IIT Madras and teaching at the department of chemical engineering. He has co-authored a series of review articles on condition monitoring and fault detection and diagnosis. He has also been the recipient of the Young Engineer Award for the year 2000 by the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) for outstanding engineers under the age of 32.
Of late, Rengaswamy has been working on engineering applications of artificial intelligence and computational microfluidics. His research work has also led to the formation of a startup, SysEng LLC, in the US, funded through an NSF STTR grant.
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