All Data Are Local
Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven Society
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
24 May 2022
Summary
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 sour…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262545174 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262545179 |
| Author: | Yanni Alexander Loukissas |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 24 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm |
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This is a very interesting and, I think, an important book, which everyone involved in data science should read. It is not a text book, but certainly could be an item of additional reading in any data science course.–Information Research–
About The Author
Yanni Alexander Loukissas
Yanni Alexander Loukissas is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Co-Designers- Cultures of Computer Simulation in Architecture.
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