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Living in data : a citizen's guide to a better information future / Jer Thorp.

By: Language: eng Publication details: New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.Edition: First paperback editionDescription: xi, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781250849151
  • 1250849152
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QA 76.9 T517l 2022
Contents:
Living in data -- I data you, you data me (we all data together) -- Data's dark matter -- By canoe and caravan -- Drunk on Zima -- Number of grown sheep that were sheared -- Do/until -- A lossy kind of alchemy -- The rice show -- Paradox walnuts -- St. Silicon's Hospital and the map room -- Te Mana Raraunga -- An internet of what -- Here in dataland.
Summary: "To live in data in the twenty-first century is to be incessantly extracted from, classified and categorized, statistic-ified, sold, and surveilled. Data—our data—is mined and processed for profit, power, and political gain. In Living in Data, Thorp asks a crucial question for our time: How do we stop passively inhabiting data, and instead become active citizens of it? Threading a data story through hippo attacks, glaciers, and school gymnasiums, around colossal rice piles, and over active minefields, Jer Thorp reminds us that the future of data is still wide open, that there are ways to transcend facts and figures to engage more viscerally with data, and that there are always new stories to be told about how data can be used. Punctuated with Thorp’s original and informative illustrations, Living in Data not only redefines what data is, but also reimagines who gets to speak its language and how to use its power to create a more just and democratic future. Timely and inspiring, Living in Data gives us a much-needed path forward."--Publisher's description.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) QA 76.9 T517l 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000174497

Living in data --
I data you, you data me (we all data together) --
Data's dark matter --
By canoe and caravan --
Drunk on Zima --
Number of grown sheep that were sheared --
Do/until --
A lossy kind of alchemy --
The rice show --
Paradox walnuts --
St. Silicon's Hospital and the map room --
Te Mana Raraunga --
An internet of what --
Here in dataland.

"To live in data in the twenty-first century is to be incessantly extracted from, classified and categorized, statistic-ified, sold, and surveilled. Data—our data—is mined and processed for profit, power, and political gain. In Living in Data, Thorp asks a crucial question for our time: How do we stop passively inhabiting data, and instead become active citizens of it? Threading a data story through hippo attacks, glaciers, and school gymnasiums, around colossal rice piles, and over active minefields, Jer Thorp reminds us that the future of data is still wide open, that there are ways to transcend facts and figures to engage more viscerally with data, and that there are always new stories to be told about how data can be used. Punctuated with Thorp’s original and informative illustrations, Living in Data not only redefines what data is, but also reimagines who gets to speak its language and how to use its power to create a more just and democratic future. Timely and inspiring, Living in Data gives us a much-needed path forward."--Publisher's description.

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