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“Bettering Data”: The Role Of Everyday Language And Visualization In Critical Novice Data Work, Benjamin R. Shapiro, Amanda Meng, Annabel Rothschild, Sierra Gilliam, Cicely Garrett, Carl Disalvo, Betsy Disalvo
“Bettering Data”: The Role Of Everyday Language And Visualization In Critical Novice Data Work, Benjamin R. Shapiro, Amanda Meng, Annabel Rothschild, Sierra Gilliam, Cicely Garrett, Carl Disalvo, Betsy Disalvo
Learning Sciences Faculty Publications
Informed by critical data literacy efforts to promote social justice, this paper uses qualitative methods and data collected during two years of workplace ethnography to characterize the notion of critical novice data work. Specifically, we analyze everyday language used by novice data workers at DataWorks, an organization that trains and employs historically excluded populations to work with community data sets. We also characterize challenges faced by these workers in both cleaning and being critical of data during a project focused on police-community relations. Finally, we highlight novel approaches to visualizing data the workers developed during this project, derived from data …
Re-Shape: A Method To Teach Data Ethics For Data Science Education, Benjamin R. Shapiro, Amanda Meng, Cody O'Donnell, Charlette Lou, Edwin Zhao, Bianca Dankwa, Andrew Hostetler
Re-Shape: A Method To Teach Data Ethics For Data Science Education, Benjamin R. Shapiro, Amanda Meng, Cody O'Donnell, Charlette Lou, Edwin Zhao, Bianca Dankwa, Andrew Hostetler
Learning Sciences Faculty Publications
Data has become central to the technologies and services that human-computer interaction (HCI) designers make, and the ethical use of data in and through these technologies should be given critical attention throughout the design process. However, there is little research on ethics education in computer science that explicitly addresses data ethics. We present and analyze Re-Shape, a method to teach students about the ethical implications of data collection and use. Re-Shape, as part of an educational environment, builds upon the idea of cultivating care and allows students to collect, process, and visualizetheir physical movement data in ways that support critical …