All Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven Society by Loukissas, Yanni Alexander

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

How to analyze data settings rather than data sets, acknowledging the meaning-making power of the local. In...
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Author: Yanni Alexander Loukissas
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All Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven Society by Loukissas, Yanni Alexander

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

CHF 64.74

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

CHF 64.74
Author: Yanni Alexander Loukissas
Format: Paperback
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.
Loukissas sets out six principles: all data are local; data have complex attachments to place; data are collected from heterogeneous sources; data and algorithms are inextricably entangled; interfaces recontextualize data; and data are indexes to local knowledge. He then provides a set of practical guidelines to follow. To make his argument, Loukissas employs a combination of qualitative research on data cultures and exploratory data visualizations. Rebutting the "myth of digital universalism," Loukissas reminds us of the meaning-making power of the local.

Author: Yanni Alexander Loukissas
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 05/03/2022
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780262545174

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