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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 …
Using The Interaction Geography Slicer To Visualize New York City Stop & Frisk, Benjamin R. Shapiro, Francis A. Pearman
Using The Interaction Geography Slicer To Visualize New York City Stop & Frisk, Benjamin R. Shapiro, Francis A. Pearman
Learning Sciences Faculty Publications
This paper adapts and uses a dynamic visualization environment called the Interaction Geography Slicer (IGS) developed by the 1st author to visualize data about New York City’s Stop & Frisk Program. Findings and discussion focus on how this environment provides new ways to view, interact with and query large-scale data sets over space and through time to support analyses of and public discussion about New York City’s Stop & Frisk Program.