Concepts and Data: An Interdisciplinary Workshop brought together scholars from the fields of anthropology, philosophy, political science, and computer science to explore a range of questions regarding the epistemological and social consequences of digitalization, big data, visualization, and measurement.
Category: Event Discussions
9/18/20 Spyware and Predictive Policing: The Merging of Historic and Big Data
Discussion Notes by Heba Islam New York Times Bureau Chief for Mexico Azam Ahmed and Johns Hopkins Sociology Instructor Dr. Stuart Schrader, in a discussion moderated by…… Read more “9/18/20 Spyware and Predictive Policing: The Merging of Historic and Big Data”
6/17/2020 COVID/DATA: Surveillance, Privacy, and Accountability
DISCUSSION NOTES BY CANAY ÖZDEN-SCHILLING: Our first virtual event after the pandemic’s onset explored issues around the ethics of data collection during COVID-19. We were fortunate to…… Read more “6/17/2020 COVID/DATA: Surveillance, Privacy, and Accountability”
3/6/2020 Sense, Sentience, Sensors
DISCUSSION NOTES BY CANAY ÖZDEN-SCHILLING: This workshop attended to the design and deployment of sensors that populate the world around us, charting the territory from quantified environments…… Read more “3/6/2020 Sense, Sentience, Sensors”
2/24/2020 The Data Environment and the New University
DISCUSSION NOTES BY CANAY ÖZDEN-SCHILLING: This timely conversation drew a big interdisciplinary crowd from all around campus—from faculty, to librarians, to undergraduate students—interested in how the new…… Read more “2/24/2020 The Data Environment and the New University”
2/12/2020 The Mathematics of Accountability
DISCUSSION NOTES BY CANAY ÖZDEN-SCHILLING: Our first event of the semester, featuring Tufts University’s Moon Duchin and Georgetown’s Kobbi Nissim, gathered our biggest crowd yet. Our first…… Read more “2/12/2020 The Mathematics of Accountability”
12/12/2019 Optimal Futures: New and Old Economies in a World of Data
DISCUSSION NOTES BY CANAY ÖZDEN-SCHILLING: This seminar grew out of an interest in forms of data-powered capitalism. What kinds of expertise emerge at the interface of data…… Read more “12/12/2019 Optimal Futures: New and Old Economies in a World of Data”
11/18-19/2019 When Data Goes to the Market
DISCUSSION NOTES BY CANAY ÖZDEN-SCHILLING: We put together this mini movie festival to complement our data & finance theme this semester. The three movies we picked were…… Read more “11/18-19/2019 When Data Goes to the Market”
10/18/2019 Pandemic Preparedness: Financing Responses in an Age of Uncertainty
DISCUSSION NOTES BY CANAY ÖZDEN-SCHILLING: Held at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Pandemic Preparedness was attended by over 70 people from across JHU. The symposium explored…… Read more “10/18/2019 Pandemic Preparedness: Financing Responses in an Age of Uncertainty”
9/11/2019 Invisible Worlds Revealed by Data
“Data Sciences and Society” Reading Group DISCUSSION NOTES BY SAM GOMES: We began our fall 2019 programming on September 11 with a Data Sciences and Society reading…… Read more “9/11/2019 Invisible Worlds Revealed by Data”
9/6/2019 Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data: Panel Stream, 2019 Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA DISCUSSION NOTES BY CANAY ÖZDEN-SCHILLING AND JEREMY GREENE: During the 2019 meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science, the Johns Hopkins based…… Read more “9/6/2019 Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data: Panel Stream, 2019 Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science”
5/6/2019 Algorithms and Accountability: A Discussion with Juliet Floyd and Matthew Jones
“Data Sciences and Society” Reading Group Discussion notes by Naveeda khan: On May 6, the Sawyer sponsored Data Sciences and Society reading group met to discuss select…… Read more “5/6/2019 Algorithms and Accountability: A Discussion with Juliet Floyd and Matthew Jones”
4/10/2019 Big Data and Resource Allocation: A Discussion with Sanmay Das
“Data Sciences and Society” Reading Group For this meeting, we read two articles [1][2] by Sanmay Das, both of which tackled the issue of how to improve the efficiency…… Read more “4/10/2019 Big Data and Resource Allocation: A Discussion with Sanmay Das”
3/24/2019 Privacy and Data: A Discussion with Anita Allen
“Data Sciences and Society” Reading Group Discussion notes by Canay Özden-Schilling, Naveeda Khan, & Veena Das: This meeting marked the first time our reading group hosted a…… Read more “3/24/2019 Privacy and Data: A Discussion with Anita Allen”
2/13/2019 Automating Inequality: A Discussion of Virginia Eubanks’s Book
A discussion of Virginia Eubanks’s Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (St. Martin’s Press, 2018) | “Data Sciences and Society” Reading Group
Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data 