Description
How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression.
Big data can be used for good, from tracking disease to exposing human rights violations, and for bad, implementing surveillance and control. Data inevitably represents the ideologies of those who control its use; data analytics and algorithms too often exclude women, the poor, and ethnic groups. In Data Action, Sarah Williams provides a guide for working with data in more ethical and responsible ways. Too often data has been used--and manipulated--to make policy decisions without much stakeholder input. Williams outlines a method that emphasizes collaboration among data scientists, policy experts, data designers, and the public. This approach creates trust and co-ownership in the data by opening the process to those who know the issues best.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Using Data Action ix
1 Big Data for Cities Is Not New 1
2 Build It! Data Is Never Raw, It's Collected 51
3 Hack It! Using Data Creatively 89
4 Share It! Communicating Data Insights 137
5 Data as a Public Good 187
Conclusion: It's How We Work with Data that Really Matters 213
Acknowledgments 223
Notes 227
Bibliography 251
Index 273
