This is a live blog account from the Data For Equity: The Power of Data to Promote Justice event. Barbara Best, Executive Director, Center for Public Leadership, introduces the panel. The moderator is Yeshimabeit Milner, the Executive Director and Founder of Data for Black Lives which uses data science […]
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This is a draft piece for a larger project called The Visual Catalogue of Uncertainty in Data that I’m just beginning with Mushon Zer-Aviv that seeks to catalog the ways in which the data never, under any circumstances, speak for themselves. Gender data is often more complicated than it […]
Photo by Patsy Beaudoin. From the Boston Public Library’s description of the talk: The Leventhal Map Center and the Boston Map Society welcome Joni Seager, Professor and Chair at Bentley University to talk about her book “State of Women in the World Atlas.” In an age of data overload, […]
Seeing the whole world is a fantasy that Michel DeCerteau calls the “totalizing eye” and Donna Haraway calls “the God Trick”. This is the first image taken of the whole earth in 1967. From Wikipedia. While there is a lot of hype about data visualization, and a lot of new […]
This is a liveblog from the Data Transparency Lab conference at the MIT Media Lab which is about transparency in user data collected from networked digital devices such as computers, mobile phones and other networked objects. Things that are needed for making a difference in user data online. Jose Luis […]