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1 online resource (xx, 285 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Contents |
Introduction: Using Data Action -- Inside Data Action -- Data Action and the "Build It! Hack It! Share It!" Method -- Big Data for Cities Is Not New -- Data: Essential for Governance -- Census: Contesting Democracy through Data -- Redistricting: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion -- Planning for the Unknown City: Data and the Industrializing City -- Data Analytics: Giving Birth to the Field of Public Health -- Cadastral Mapping: Controlling the Industrialized City -- Cadastral Mapping: Modern City Planners -- Cadastral Mapping: Groundwork for Lasting Oppression -- Data and Urban Renewal -- Qualitative Analytics: The Call of Social Reformers -- Maps: Good or Bad? -- Technology of War: Data and Cybernetics -- An Urban Planning Tool: Public Participation GIS -- Smart Cities and Big Data: Urban Modeling Rebooted -- Build It! Data Is Never Raw, It's Collected -- Participatory Data Collection: The Act Itself Is the Tool -- ^ |
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Crowdsourcing a Global Data Set -- Exposing Beijing's Air Quality: DIY Data Collection -- Data Collection: Cross-checking and Correcting the Record -- Crowdsourced Data: Why Governments Need It -- Data from Citizens: Why Governments Collect It -- Data Collection during Disasters: Governments and People Depend on It -- Data Collaborations: Achieving Data Literacy and Community -- Citizen Data Collection Projects Do More Than Collect Data -- Hack It! Using Data Creatively -- Ethics of Using Data We Find on the Web -- Where Do Researchers Get Big Data? -- Applying Unusual Data to Find Housing Vacancy in China -- Finding the Right Open Data -- Embracing Biases in Data to Tell New Stories -- Bias in Getty Images Data Explains How Cities Create Buzz -- Social Media Data (Biased or Not) Gives the City a Voice -- Hubris of Using Data for a Social Good -- Looping Back to the Ethics: Data and Disaster Response -- How "White Hacks" Use Data Ethically and Responsibly -- ^ |
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Share It! Communicating Data Insights -- Constructing Change with Data -- Sharing Data Creates Trust and a Commitment to Place -- Making and Sharing an Essential Resource to Create Action -- "For the First Time, We Can See Our Power" -- Digital Matatus: Co-creation Is Powerful -- Maps Are a Powerful Medium-They Persuade -- Making a System Visible to Persuade -- Transforming Map Power for Those on the Margins -- Interactive Websites Help to Create User-Centered Data Narratives -- Local Lotto: A Web Tool for Data Literacy -- Data Stories Create Evidence for Public Debate -- Stop-and-Frisk Brought to an End Using Data -- Sharing Data Creates Transparency, Public Participation, and Collaboration -- Data as a Public Good -- Data Scarcity in the Era of Big Data -- Data Is a Public Infrastructure -- Data Colonialism -- Private Data Serving the Public Good -- Privacy for My Business and My Customer -- Sharing Data When the Benefits Are Mutual -- Developing Data-Sharing Agreements -- Negotiating the Terms of Data Access -- Data Philanthropy -- Conclusion: It's How We Work with Data That Really Matters -- Purpose for Using Data Analytics Must Be Interrogated -- Building Expert Teams Is Essential to Making Data Work for Policy Change -- Building Data Changes Power Dynamics and Shapes Communities -- Quantify Ingeniously, but Remember Data is Biased by Its Creator -- Ground-Truthing Our Results with the People Data Analysis Affects -- Data Brings Insights to the Public in Dynamic Ways -- Data Are People, and We Must Do Them No Harm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Data Action will offer a model for reading, collecting, visualizing, and putting data to work on civic change. Using arresting graphics and influential case studies, as well as incorporating cultural and historical context, Data Action presents a helpful corrective to standard practice. Historically, data has been used and manipulated to make policy decisions without input from the general public. Data Action asks advocates of big data to rethink how they work by laying out a methodology for more transparent and accountable data analysis. The tools outlined in this book will help anyone, not just government officials, but data scientists, civic activists and hackers, as well as all citizens reaching for more effective civic debates and policy reforms, to shape our environment, economy, public health, and quality of life, with greater transparency and democratic participation"-- Provided by publisher |
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Concurrent user level: 1 user |
| Subject |
Public administration -- Data processing.
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Public administration -- Data processing. |
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Information behavior.
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Information behavior. |
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects. |
| Indexed Term |
INFORMATION SCIENCE/Data Science |
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INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Williams, Sarah. Data action. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020] 9780262044196 (DLC) 2019049202 (OCoLC)1126350631 |
| ISBN |
9780262359146 electronic book |
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0262359146 electronic book |
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9780262359153 electronic book |
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0262359154 electronic book |
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9780262044196 hardcover |
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0262044196 hardcover |
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EB00811237 Recorded Books |
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