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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“Brené Brown, the social scientist, said that stories are data with a soul. I think about that a lot in the work I do. I’m passionate about it. When I meet the most engaging researchers, they’re good storytellers. Data are ways to connect with stories – data are the underlying content that researchers are sharing…
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“I wonder whether any ethics are applied in collection of samples of Ebola and HIV/AIDS in emergency situations. When I talk to doctors about it, they are aware that some researchers from the developed world provide expertise and fund research in pandemic situations. But there are issues on data collection ethics based on informed consent…
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“I’m very passionate about open science. From where I stand in the context of Africa, there’s so much data we create in government, universities or communities. But at the moment, data, which is the base for reports and provides evidence for government decisions, is not accessible to all except the researcher and specialist research reference…
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“My background is in the political and social sciences, and I can connect with a lot of the ethical issues, the equality issues, making data sharing genuinely equal here and in other countries – that’s important to me. I get a kick out of helping researchers. Working in a library context I was helping a…
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“Science is about discovering that things aren’t as you expected. The more I learn, the more I realise I don’t know. One of the fun things about what I do just now is that I get to see a lot of different research communities and how they conceive of and represent data, and what data…
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“My first job after university, I was doing computer stuff in a medical research place. I got a reputation as someone who was good at rescuing things off of old tapes and punchcards. It had been expensive to collect that data, and people had sometimes suffered in providing it. But it was also a detective…
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“I really love this group of people who work on data management and sharing. I’m excited to be part of this very welcoming community. I never experienced this elsewhere – it’s very nice to collaborate, to network. People are really happy to do work voluntarily. They are people who want to do not just their…
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“Helping researchers to manage and share their data is what really motivates me. I was a researcher before, and much of research is not shared because the only incentive is to publish in ‘high impact factor’ journals. Nobody cares about what you’ve found out as an early career researcher, unless it’s published in a ‘high…
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“We need more [global] south–south collaborations. I’d like to approach this and get in touch with people I’ve met here, and I’m trying to identify other people in Latin America that have the same interests. Our data problems might be different from England or Canada or elsewhere in the north. We have a lot of…
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“I’m a molecular biologist, not a data scientist. My recent PhD, however, was in information sciences and my concern was with knowledge management inside research organisations, but now I understand this includes data management. Technology is very important, but I would like to know more about the social and cultural barriers that people are faced…
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