Expressions of Data: Natural State, Specific Application, and General Pattern

摘要

With the explosive growth of data volume, more and more data are processed into various kinds of valuable products, which is the trend of the development of the times and the broad demand of the society. The work aims to analyze the different expressions of data and explore the research paradigm of data artifacts. When data becomes the object of design, there are also ethical problems. Creating meaningful data artifacts is the goal of making these data valuable, which is an important thing. Based on the cases of various products driven by data and those artifacts made by data, a classification study is conducted through induction and summary, three expressions of data are illustrated: natural state, specific application, and general pattern. The classification concerns mainly on the meaning rather than the depth or difficulty of data processing, also having nothing to do with these management dimensions of data, such as volume, variety, and velocity.