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Data Anthropology

Info about event

Time

Monday 23 April 2018,  at 10:00 - 12:00

Location

IMC Meeting Room, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, Building 1483

The seminar will give an overview of possibilities, challenges and perils in data science as seen from an anthropological point of view -- aimed at those who work with data tools as well as anthropologists. Beyond studying the roles of data in society, ethnographers have been studying data practices and algorithm development, collaborating with data scientists, and applying comparative methods to data ontologies. Examples include data archaeology (tracing the lifecycles and sociology of data), bioethnography (combining big data and ethnography), and critical data science (collaborative visual interpretation of large datasets, using e.g., haptic 3D virtual environments)    

Speaker: Visiting Professor Joe Dumit