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: How do data interact with the body?
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”
6/29/20: Interview with Canay Özden-Schilling about Reservoir Hill/Bolton Hill self-quarantine response team
Sam Gomes interviews Canay Özden-Schilling about her neighborhood’s self-quarantine response team.
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”
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”
9/6/2019 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”
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”
Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data 