Data Journeys

  • What are our files/data about?
  • Sabina Leonelli is a researcher who proposed the idea of looking through the journey that some data make through different people and applications.
  • Some questions to make:
    • How was this data collected, prepared and reported? What were the intentions, ideas, presuppositions?
    • How is it cleaned, ordered, transformed, or reused?
    • How is this data maintained, or, what are the infrastructures around it?
    • How is it disseminated and made accessible?
    • How is it visualized and analysed?
  • Again, all of these steps presuppose values and views of a good life.
  • What could we compromise if we enter in the middle of this process?
  • Can we discern virtue or vice in these steps?