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virtuous uncertainty

thomas padilla | @thomasgpadilla

data praxis

a could be common cause

Thomas Padilla

@thomasgpadilla

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Stop!, kaneda99

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  1. data praxis & common cause
  2. here & now
  3. collections as data
  4. partnerships

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  • data praxis & common cause
  • here & now
  • collections as data
  • partnerships

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the syntax breaks down

its mangled draft and says,

one day the poor

will have nothing to eat but the rich.

i hate that, when syntax

connects me to the rich.

peter gizzi, strangeness becomes you

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We tell stories with data.

We want our stories to be understood.

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The ability to engage data

should not remain

the province of the exceptional.

The ability to engage data

is vitally important

to everyone.

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data praxis

theory and practice of identifying data, working with data, finding meaning in data, and telling a story with data.

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data praxis is not just an edge case.

data praxis is not just counting.

data praxis is not just academic jargon.

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data praxis is agency.

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data praxis is self actualization.

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by jaydaley

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by liz tatarintseva

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by liz tatarintseva

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color clouds by debbie carlos

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by adam ferriss

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Underwood, Ted, David Bamman, and Sabrina Lee. “The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction.” Journal of Cultural Analytics, 2018.

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Ed Summers, anon

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cultivation of …

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cultivation of … possibility

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  • data praxis & common cause
  • here & now
  • collections as data
  • partnerships

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cultivation of … possibility

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Emily Barnes—Getty Images; Lucas Jackson—Reuters

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by ronmacphotos

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Stop!, kaneda99

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Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images

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by Seth Eckert

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anchorpointanimation.com

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  • How do we empower users as they interact with data?
  • How do we support user interpretation of data?
  • How do we support eachother in our work with data?
  • What can we do to guide ethical engagement with data?

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each of us would like to be omniscient, at least in the sense of having access to the correct answer to any question but, socially, this would be a disaster . . .

luciano floridi, the politics of uncertainty

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  • data praxis & common cause
  • here & now
  • collections as data
  • partnerships

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library of congress by vpickering

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collections as data

… ordered information

… stored digitally

… amenable to computation

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every surrogate has its own query potential, which for some purposes may exceed that of the original.

Martin Mueller, Morgenstern’s Spectacles or the Importance of Not-Reading, 1.21.2013

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Hands, by leonie_x

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American Historical Association; NICAR; American Philosophical Society; British Library; Carnegie Museum of Art; Compute Canada; Cornell University; Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum; Digital Library Federation; Digital Public Library of America; Emory University; Getty Research Institute; Hathitrust Research Center; Haverford College; Indiana University; Indiana University-Purdue University; Internet Archive; James Madison University; Koninklijke Bibliotheek; Library of Congress; Max Planck Computing & Data Facility; McGill University; Michigan State University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Museum of Modern Art; National University of Singapore; New York Public Library; New York University; Northeastern University; Open Knowledge Foundation; Penn State University; Stanford University; Swarthmore College; Texas A&M University; Tufts University; University College London; University of British Columbia; University of California Santa Barbara; University of California Berkeley; University of California Los Angeles; University of Canberra; University of Delaware; University of Graz; University of Houston; University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; University of Maryland; University of Miami; University of Minnesota; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; University of Pennsylvania; University of Toronto; University of Utah; University of Texas Austin; Vanderbilt University; Wellcome Trust; Wheaton College;

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Chan, Tiffany. “The Author Function”.

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bmciver

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  • data praxis & common cause
  • here & now
  • collections as data
  • partnerships

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partner on experimentation

Laura Wrubel

Jer Thorp

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Bergis Jules

Yvonne Ng

partner on ethics

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partner on need

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support cross sector exchange

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criticalhandgestures.tumblr.com

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when a future oriented culture impinges upon

a present-centered one,

the method becomes

a compulsion.

ursula k. le guin, a non-euclidean view of california as a cold place to be

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We tell stories with data.

We want our stories to be understood.

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The ability to engage data

should not remain

the province of the exceptional.

The ability to engage data

is vitally important

to everyone.

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data praxis

theory and practice of identifying data, working with data, finding meaning in data, and telling stories with data.

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_________ is agency.

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by jaydaley

agency for who? agency for all.

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  • How do we empower users as they interact with data?
  • How do we support user interpretation of data?
  • How do we support eachother in our work with data?
  • What can we do to guide ethical engagement with data?