I used the GIPHY API to make a GIF gallery / moodboard. I added the ability to search and also to delete things from the gallery

https://editor.p5js.org/weberwong/sketches/kEwedQrJI

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What is the origin of data?

The origin of data is oftentimes a dataset with a label and a specific asset (e.g. ImageNet). Oftentimes, it can be misleading.

Who had the power to collect, label and make available the data?

Mostly academic researchers and Amazon mechanical turk workers, or corporations typically.

If you had to create a "data biography" (Thank you to Ellen Nickles for this term), what would you include? Have the maintainers of this dataset or API made this information easily available?

Given my experience building a product for my startup, I would want to understand timelines of user growth for many different startups just to see their trajectories (to inform decision making for my startup)

What potential harms could arise?

I’m not sure, maybe it would reveal information about that startup’s trajectory that they don’t want to reveal for competitive purposes.