Community Data - Creative Approaches to Empowering People With Information

Community Data offers arguments and approaches to working with data in support of community goals. This book is built around concrete examples that will challenge what you think of as data storytelling, expand who you think can work with data, and introduce you to new settings where innovative data narratives are being created.

List of contents

• Introduction: We need a larger data toolbox


• 1: Center Impact


• 2: Focus on Participation


• 3: Build mirrors, not windows


• 4: Create layers of reading


• 5: Open many doors


• Conclusion: Practice popular data


• Acknowledgements


• Bibliography

About the author

Rahul Bhargava is an educator, researcher, and designer who builds collaborative projects to interrogate our datafied society with a focus on rethinking participation and power in data processes. His work has appearedin science and craft museums, academic journals, and public events. Rahul was formerly a Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Civic Media. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Journalism and Art + Design at Northeastern University, where he directs the Data Culture Group.

Summary

Community Data offers arguments and approaches to working with data in support of community goals. This book is built around concrete examples that will challenge what you think of as data storytelling, expand who you think can work with data, and introduce you to new settings where innovative data narratives are being created.

Product details

• Authors: Rahul Bhargava, Rahul (Assistant Professor Bhargava
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2024
• EAN: 9780198911630
• ISBN: 978-0-19-891163-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics; COMPUTERS / General, MATHEMATICS / General, SCIENCE / Weights & Measures, Mathematics, Scientific standards, measurement etc, Information technology: general issues, Information technology: general topics, Scientific Standards, Mensuration & Systems Of Measurement