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PC. power asymmetries of local / universal data

PC: A key tension I see here is between open / universalized / decontextualized (typically quantitative or at the least, digital) data, and localized, particular, (often qualitative but not...Read more

META: What discourses shape the way people in this setting talk about and conceptualize qualitative data infrastructure and capacity, right-to-know, freedom of information, the potential of expanded public participation, and so on?

Proceedings of Archiving Kenya's Past and Futures

Analytics Across Scales and Systems: Qualitative Data Capacity

AO. High interest in qual data across diverse groups in Nairobi.

AO: The last panel seemed to be most worried about privacy and the capitalist profit made off of individual’s data; the system forces you to consent and there are not options for...Read more

DEUTERO: Who and how are those in this context thinking and worrying about the kinds of qualitative data infrastructure, work and capacity called for currently and in the future?

Proceedings of Archiving Kenya's Past and Futures

Analytics Across Scales and Systems: Qualitative Data Capacity

AO. decolonization.

AO: decolonization emerged several times - “decolonize our writing” (to make them accessible to broader publics); questioning the benefits of research and how to make research more...Read more

META: What discourses shape the way people in this setting talk about and conceptualize qualitative data infrastructure and capacity, right-to-know, freedom of information, the potential of expanded public participation, and so on?

Proceedings of Archiving Kenya's Past and Futures

Analytics Across Scales and Systems: Qualitative Data Capacity

AOk. "...if you torture the data, for long enough, you can get it to confess to almost anything"

This quote (see copy-pasted below) articulates why using machine learning is more robust... because "if you torture the data, for long enough, you can get it to confess to almost anything."...Read more

What are perceived benefits of sharing data?

Keynote Presentation at IBM Research Lab. (2014, March 18). [Transcript based on personal recording].

Thematic Analysis: Qual Open Data

Nation Article: "Do Health Ministry Figures on Covid-19 Really Add Up?"

This news article published in the Nation online highlighted questions that we have discussed amongst some members of the RDS group regarding the accuracy of the official COVID-19 statistics in the country. Most noticably, how can the number of new cases exceed that of the total cumulative cases...Read more

PC. power asymmetries of local / universal data

META: What discourses shape the way people in this setting talk about and conceptualize qualitative data infrastructure and capacity, right-to-know, freedom of information, the potential of expanded public participation, and so on?

Proceedings of Archiving Kenya's Past and Futures

AO. High interest in qual data across diverse groups in Nairobi.

DEUTERO: Who and how are those in this context thinking and worrying about the kinds of qualitative data infrastructure, work and capacity called for currently and in the future?

Proceedings of Archiving Kenya's Past and Futures

AO. decolonization.

META: What discourses shape the way people in this setting talk about and conceptualize qualitative data infrastructure and capacity, right-to-know, freedom of information, the potential of expanded public participation, and so on?

Proceedings of Archiving Kenya's Past and Futures

AOk. "...if you torture the data, for long enough, you can get it to confess to almost anything"

What are perceived benefits of sharing data?

Keynote Presentation at IBM Research Lab. (2014, March 18). [Transcript based on personal recording].

Nation Article: "Do Health Ministry Figures on Covid-19 Really Add Up?"

AO. "the more info, the easier to identify the person, but the less info, the less value for the researcher..."

How is being anonymized or named in research described? Moralized?

TRANSCRIPT: 190522_001 RESEARCHING IN/FROM NAIROBI

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