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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14198.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262371469
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14198.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262371469
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14198.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262371469
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14198.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262371469
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14198.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262371469
Paired informal and scholarly essays show how everyday events reveal fundamental concepts of data, including its creation, aggregation, management, and use. Whether questioning numbers on a scale, laughing at a misspelling of one's name, or finding ourselves confused in a foreign supermarket, we are engaging with data. The only way to handle data responsibly, says Melanie Feinberg in this incisive work, is to take into account its human character. Though the data she discusses may seem familiar, close scrutiny shows it to be ambiguous, complicated, and uncertain: unruly. Drawing on the tools of information science, she uses everyday events such as deciding between Blender A and Blender B on Amazon to demonstrate a practical, critical, and generative mode of thinking about data: its creation, management, aggregation, and use. Each chapter pairs a self-contained main essay (an adventure) with a scholarly companion essay (the reflection). The adventure begins with an anecdote—visiting the library, running out of butter, cooking rice on a different stove. Feinberg argues that to understand the power and pitfalls of data science, we must attend to the data itself, not merely the algorithms that manipulate it. As she reflects on the implications of commonplace events, Feinberg explicates fundamental concepts of data that reveal the many tiny design decisions—which may not even seem like design at all—that shape how data comes to be. Through the themes of serendipity, objectivity, equivalence, interoperability, taxonomy, labels, and locality, she illuminates the surprisingly pervasive role of data in our daily thoughts and lives.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14198.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262371469
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14198.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262371469
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14198.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262371469
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14198.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262371469
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14198.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262371469
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14198.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262371469
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14198.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262371469
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14198.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262371469
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14198.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262371469
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14198.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262371469
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262369961
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262369961
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262369961
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262369961
Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 May 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12245.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262369961
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