data is-a-process03
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Data as a process
Making and remaking tools, datasets, and questions
Elizabeth Goodman
PhD candidate
UC Berkeley School of Information
www.confectious.net
@egoodman
About me
…plus Elizabeth Goodman and Andrea Moed
Data is made of people
Parkscan.org
Data is made of machines
“For the people in the community, the map is not the endgame.”
Thea Clay, February 10, 2011
Rethinking data-shaped relationships
Inside a server farm: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sterlingely/1418364
Cities (and data) are obdurate
http://flickr.com/photos/limonada/6270210/
AniqueHommels, Unbuilding Cities
Data as a process
Looking for non-users
ParkScan.org
Adele Clarke, Situational Analysis
Tactic 1: Remake the data
Non-users
Seeking new data cultures
Pelle Ehn and other writers
on participatory design
Tactic 2: Bark up a different tree
Data needs spokespeople
Bruno Latour, Science in Action
Tactic 3: Recruit allies
Working with obduracy
Data as totem,totem as object, object as process
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bellecouleurjewelry/5389482358/
Danny Miller, Materiality
http://blogs.nyu.edu/projects/materialworld/2010/10/
Totems, British Museum
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lodekka/5422557064/
Totem arts and crafts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/prayingmother/5414648626/