datæcologies.

Commenting on data dashboards and viz technologies: techs come from other places - Tableau, IBM, etc. Cities rely on this tech but have to buy into the way vendors want them to; little funds for bespoke infrastructure.

@dourish speaking last night on ‘data’ as political tool in urban government: it’s not about ‘numbers’ but rather ‘authority’ - whomever has the most data wins. #datathenandnow /cc @uwescience

.@lindsaypoirier's recent (excellent) talk from @uwescience- 'Critiques of Pure (t)Reason: Historical Perspectives on Semantic Data Infrastructure' - is now available for your viewing pleasure! youtu.be/pXoVsCoincI

@scritic on engineering markets at #AmAnth2018: MOOC reformers seamlessly blend elements of Silicon Vally cyberutopianism and American educational progressivism

Carolina Cruz-Neida from @eacualr on #dataviz: the ‘big’ness of data not just a matter of size; also about complex relationships within the data and size of the problem to be solved #BDHubs @MWBigDataHub

Sally Rockey of @FoundationFAR: Does a farmer who buys analytics back from a company still own their data that was used to produce those analytics? #digitalagriculture #BDHubs @MWBigDataHub @NSF_CISE

@SabinaLeonelli on ‘context’: certain data more tractable than others for given groups, leading to stratification, advantages, and disadvantages #HSS2018

Nicole Nelson (@UWHistoryDept) delivers inaugural ‘Data Then and Now’ lecture at @uwescience with stellar talk on Latour, the reproducibility crisis, and links from lab to data practices cc/ @hcdeUW @SimpsonCenter #datasciencestudies

A very special Halloween edition of David Ribes’ famed rendering of @BrunoLatourAIME’s ‘Give Me A Laboratory and I Will Raise the World’ @hcdeUW

A busy morning at @NYU_CUSP mapping out + enacting the Translational Data Science ecosystem @NEbigdatahub @westbigdatahub @NSF_CISE (complete with plug for more #ethnography of #datascience)

Mapping out the enablers and barriers to translational data science today with @NEbigdatahub @westbigdatahub @NSF_CISE @uwescience amongst others!

A. Blok + J. Lashe-Thomsen on affordances of pragmatic sociology: attention to pluralistic, material forms of coordination + valuation as a way to engage ‘social movement’ and ‘activist’ discourses in STS #EASST2018 /cc @i_ngli

Sy Taffel on escaping the technologic solutionism-anthropocenic catastrophism loop: There is a performative function of hope that makes the apocalyptic visions of the future more likely to pass. #EASST2018 cc/@i_ngli

the deLAB crew in full effect, savoring our final evening together in lancaster. we’re glad to have made the trip and to (re)connect with many amazing folks over the past few days. #EASST2018

@jwyg: deployed as an ‘elicitation device,’ the database is not just a way of organizing data, but also a means for organizing wider economic life #EASST2018 #dataworlds

Tomasso Venturini on moving from Star’s embrace of the ‘boring’ to making the study of technical infrastructure not ‘boring’ for students. #EASST2018 /cc @jwyg

Laurie Waller: Visual media plays an important role in allowing ideas of #verticalfarming to circulate. But how do we think about participation in highly economized situations of ‘disruption’? #EASST2018 /cc @jwyg

@FranciscaGromme on coproduction in app design: is it part of getting from one place to another, or is it something that citizens ‘just do’?! #EASST2018 /cc @jwyg