How Data Need People by Gtz Hoeppe - 9781009686730

Cambridge University Press

How Data Need PeopleThe Social and Epistemic Practice of a Data-Rich Science\nAuthor(s): Gtz Hoeppe\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009686730, 978-1009686730\nSynopsis\nFrom genome sequencing to large sky surveys, digital technologies produce massive datasets that promise unprecedented scientific insights. But data, for being good to use and reuse, need people scientists, technicians, and administrators as embodied, evaluative, social humans. In this book, anthropologist Gtz Hoeppe draws on an ethnography of astronomical research to examine the media and practices that scientists and technicians use to instruct graduate students, make diagrams for data calibration and discovery, organize collaborative work, negotiate the ethics of open access, encode their knowledge in datasets and undertake social inquiries along the way. This book offers a reflection on the sociality of data-rich researc.