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All Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven Society

All Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven Society

Loukissas, Yanni Alexander

Paperback

Technology & EngineeringGeneral ComputersSystem Administration

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 0262545179
ISBN13: 9780262545174
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: May 3 2022
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
How to analyze data settings rather than data sets, acknowledging the meaning-making power of the local.

In our data-driven society, it is too easy to assume the transparency of data. Instead, Yanni Loukissas argues in All Data Are Local, we should approach data sets with an awareness that data are created by humans and their dutiful machines, at a time, in a place, with the instruments at hand, for audiences that are conditioned to receive them. The term data set implies something discrete, complete, and portable, but it is none of those things. Examining a series of data sources important for understanding the state of public life in the United States--Harvard's Arnold Arboretum, the Digital Public Library of America, UCLA's Television News Archive, and the real estate marketplace Zillow--Loukissas shows us how to analyze data settings rather than data sets.

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