Terms

Week 1

GIS - Geographic Information Systems or Science

Ethics - Branch of philosphy concerned about how and why we do certain actions.

Civil Society - The sector of society concerned focused with non-profits and non-government. This is in opposition to the other two sectors of society, the private sector and the government sector.

Data - Observed units of information.

Qualitative data - Properties are descriptive and are not numerical.

Quantitative data - Properties that are numerical.

Cartography - The practice of making maps, includes paper maps and digital mapmaking.

Critical Data Studies - More to the data than just numbers, data should be approached with skepticism and the collection of data is a set of biases

Repository – Place where code exists, also known as a repo.

Open Source - Programs and applications where the source is freely available for people to use and replicate.

Closed Source - Programs where the source is not made available for all.

Open data– When governments, companies, and non-profits provide data for transparency

Humanitarian data – When non-profits and organizations ask for data from volunteers and locals

Crowdsource data – A sourcing model in which individuals or organizations obtain goods or services, including ideas, voting, micro-tasks and finances, from a large, relatively open and often rapidly evolving group of participants.

Participatory data – Puts the community at the forefront of the data, amplifies and empowers local voices

Cloning a repo - Copying another repo to your own location (can be remote or local).

Forking a repo - Copying another repo, but it is still connected to the origin repo

Class repo – Class content and the discussion board. If you are reading this, you probably are on it!

Lab assignment repo – Where lab assignments will be posted at the beginning of the week.

Your lab assignment repo – A forked version of the lab assignment repo, where you will be submitting assignments. The "remote" exists on GitHub and "local" exists on your machine if you cloned it.

Group Project repo – where you will be submitting your group work.