Data Infrastructure Literacy
Reshaping Practices of Measurement,
Monitoring and Evidence
Carolin Gerlitz (@cgrltz)
University of Siegen
Liliana Bounegru (@bb_liliana)
University of Groningen
University of Ghent
Jonathan Gray (@jwyg)
University of Bath
Drawing on two papers-in-progress
Towards a Literacy for Data
Infrastructures
Jonathan Gray
Carolin Gerlitz
Liliana Bounegru
Performing Data through
Journalism Code: Mapping
Code Ecologies for the
Valorisation of Data on GitHub
Liliana Bounegru
Tommaso Venturini
Mapping Journalism Code Ecologies

for the Valorisation of Data on GitHub
“To attend to the social life of method ... is to
treat method as a phenomenon in its own right.”
(Law, Ruppert & Savage, “The Double Social Life of Methods,” 2011)
1. A cartography of journalism code.
2. The mediating capacities of data valorisation code.
1. A cartography of journalism code.
2. The mediating capacities of data valorisation code.
https://github.com/
https://source.opennews.org/en-US/organizations/
1. A cartography of journalism code.
2. The mediating capacities of data valorisation code.
“Numbers both are and have relations”
(Day, Lury & Wakeford, “Number Ecologies: Numbers
and Numbering Practices,” 2014)
http://www.yasiv.com/github
california-civic-data-coalition/django-calaccess-raw-data
unitedstates/congress-legislators
sunlightlabs/openstates
wireservice/ffs
openelections/dashboard
newsapps/django-boundaryservice openaddresses/openaddresses
postcss/postcss
unitedstates/congress
dc-js/dc.js
18f/web-design-standards
mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
intridea/hashie
feross/webtorrent
openelections/openelections-core
ireapps/first-news-app
newsdev/elex
caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets
ireapps/census
caolan/highland
tabulapdf/tabula
opencivicdata/docs.opencivicdata.org
opennews/srccon-datadatadesk/python-googlegeocoder
prosemirror/prosemirror
efforg/https-everywhere
quartz/bad-data-guide
ryanpitts/journalists-guide-datasets
dwillis/hulse
propublica/table-setter
shazow/urllib3
leaverou/bliss
wireservice/lookup
ascheink/nytimes-style
propublica/campaign_cash
california-civic-data-coalition/django-calaccess-campaign-browser
theupshot/statement
nytimes/fech
datamade/data-making-guidelineswireservice/agate-excel
marak/faker.js
facebook/relay
jamesturk/scrapelib
propublica/timeline-setter
duckduckgo/duckduckgo
nprapps/dailygraphics
sunlightlabs/opencongress
18f/analytics-reporter
tldr-pages/tldr
sunlightlabs/scout
datadesk/latimes-table-stacker
netflix/falcor
https://github.com/newsdev/elex
https://github.com/motherjones/grunt-gss-pull
Data Infrastructure Literacy: Reshaping Practices of Measurement, Monitoring and Evidence

Data Infrastructure Literacy: Reshaping Practices of Measurement, Monitoring and Evidence