Humans of Data
Humans. Doing data.
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- Humans of Data 037“I think it’s about making a difference in the world. To believe that by working with data and metadata and technologies,… Read more: Humans of Data 037
- Humans of Data 036“I’m a librarian and I do feel part of a data community – the library sector is such a strong community,… Read more: Humans of Data 036
- Humans of Data 035“It really matters to me that my work contributes to the public good, that people can benefit from what I do.… Read more: Humans of Data 035
- Humans of Data 034“There’s an argument out there that scientific data is not biased. But it’s people that decided to collect that data, and… Read more: Humans of Data 034
- Humans of Data 033“So I ask researchers, ‘Can you help me generate this documentation, so others can use it? And so others can cite… Read more: Humans of Data 033
Category: HoD posts
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“I’m trying to create awareness for researchers on opening up their own data. Before working [on open data] I didn’t know anything about it. If people open up their data there is so much more that can be done. You can share ideas, review someone else’s data and find something that they didn’t find before. …
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“What motivates me to keep going is teaching people who are going to keep this going after us. Managing data will find its place in the world. I don’t mean analytics, I mean taking care of the data so that people can run legitimate analytics. It annoys me just now – a lot of these…
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“I’m an archivist who does digital preservation in a library and I’m very aware of the opportunities and challenges that happen in that context. When we talk about inclusion, we need to remember professional and technical inclusion, too. We don’t leverage our cumulative power enough. Archives, libraries, digital preservation, digital curation, data science: we need…
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“My story with data is funny. A year and half ago I didn’t know the term ‘big data’ exists. I couldn’t sleep one night in Cairo and I was reading online, and I found an article about big data. I had no idea what it was. So it was like, ‘This is interesting. I should…
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“I’m excited that people are now starting to think about data sharing. For the last few years it’s been me, as the institutional data manager, going to people and saying, ‘You should make your data available!’ Now people are getting in touch and saying they want to do it, because they’re recognising they can get…
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“In my previous life as an academic, I always liked interdisciplinary work: to come at things from a slightly sideways perspective. But in this area, I get to encounter more than most people do – collections, ideas, researchers, people, stories … I get to discover everything from every different area of knowledge, from lots of…
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“I’m not a data scientist but I know how to read and fiddle with code. This is what drives me – I want to understand and know something practically, not just by reading about it but by getting first-hand experience in collecting data, doing things with it, manipulation. I enjoy this and find it valuable.…
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“I’m inspired by the fact that the [digital preservation] field is cross-disciplinary. To be able to talk about digital preservation in a holistic way you need data producers and data consumers including people from information sciences, library scientists and researchers. With every domain we need to understand a whole new idea of how data is…
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“Digital preservation is a perfect field because it unites two things I’m passionate about: humanities and IT. I can work on a framework to keep the data for future generations. It’s always been important to do that whether the data is analogue or not. Data presents evidence, evidence that’s subject to story telling and interpretation.…
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“I work in a university library but was trained as an engineer. When I was doing my PhD, my advisor claimed engineering was a liberal art, which I didn’t understand then but I get it now: statistics and computation are all methods. You need to think about people, products and processes, and the workflows that…
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