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Where Is That Moon, Anyway? The Problem of Interpreting Historical Solar Eclipse Observations
Lisa Gitelman
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In this paper, the authors discuss the problem in the Nineteenth Century, the Twenty-First Century, and the Twentieth Century, with a focus on the problem of globalization.Abstract:
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Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject:
Nick Couldry,Ulises A. Mejias +1 more
TL;DR: The capture and processing of social data unfolds through a process w.h.p. as mentioned in this paper. But unlike oil, data are not a substance found in nature It must be appropriated.
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How Data Science Workers Work with Data: Discovery, Capture, Curation, Design, Creation
Michael Muller,Ingrid Lange,Dakuo Wang,David Piorkowski,Jason Tsay,Q. Vera Liao,Casey Dugan,Thomas Erickson +7 more
TL;DR: This paper building on the work of other CSCW and HCI researchers in describing the ways that scientists, scholars, engineers, and others work with their data, through analyses of interviews with 21 data science professionals sets five approaches to data along a dimension of interventions.
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Potential Biases in Big Data: Omitted Voices on Social Media:
TL;DR: While big data offers exciting opportunities to address questions about social behavior, studies must not abandon traditionally important considerations of social science research such as data repre... as discussed by the authors,...
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Data infrastructure literacy
TL;DR: A recent report from the UN makes the case for "global data literacy" in order to realize the opportunities afforded by the data revolution as mentioned in this paper, which is the case in many other contexts.
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Problem Formulation and Fairness
Samir Passi,Solon Barocas +1 more
TL;DR: This research demonstrates that the specification and operationalization of the problem are always negotiated and elastic, and rarely worked out with explicit normative considerations in mind, and argues that effective normative interventions will require attending to the practical work of problem formulation.