This document discusses data as a process that involves making and remaking tools, datasets, and questions. It suggests three tactics for working with data as a process: 1) remaking the data, 2) considering different perspectives, and 3) recruiting allies. The document emphasizes that data involves both people and machines, and is shaped by relationships within communities.

1. Data as a process Making and remaking tools, datasets, and questions Elizabeth Goodman PhD candidate UC Berkeley School of Information www.confectious.net @egoodman

2. About me …plus Elizabeth Goodman and Andrea Moed

3. Data is made of people Parkscan.org

4. Data is made of machines

5. “For the people in the community, the map is not the endgame.” Thea Clay, February 10, 2011

6. Rethinking data-shaped relationships Inside a server farm: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sterlingely/1418364

7. Cities (and data) are obdurate http://flickr.com/photos/limonada/6270210/ AniqueHommels, Unbuilding Cities

8. Data as a process

9. Looking for non-users ParkScan.org Adele Clarke, Situational Analysis

10. Tactic 1: Remake the data

11. Non-users Seeking new data cultures

12. Tactic 2: Bark up a different tree Pelle Ehn and other writers on participatory design

13. Data needs spokespeople Bruno Latour, Science in Action

14. Tactic 3: Recruit allies

15. Working with obduracy

16. Data as totem,totem as object, object as process http://www.flickr.com/photos/bellecouleurjewelry/5389482358/ Danny Miller, Materiality http://blogs.nyu.edu/projects/materialworld/2010/10/

17. Totems, British Museum http://www.flickr.com/photos/lodekka/5422557064/

18. Totem arts and crafts http://www.flickr.com/photos/prayingmother/5414648626/

19. Thanks! @egoodman www.confectious.net egoodman@confectious.net