LEADER 02823oam 2200445K 450 001 9910322660103321 005 20240117190616.0 010 $a0-262-35222-2 010 $a0-262-35221-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000008211784 035 $a(OCoLC)1082521438 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1082521438 035 $a(MaCbMITP)11543 035 $a(PPN)236681656 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)88868465 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008211784 100 $a20190117d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||unuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAll data are local $ethinking critically in a data-driven society /$fYanni Alexander Loukissas ; foreword by Geoffrey C. Bowker 210 1$aCambridge :$cThe MIT Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (272 pages) 311 $a0-262-03966-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aHow to analyze data settings rather than data sets, acknowledging the meaning-making power of the local. In our data-driven society, it is too easy to assume the transparency of data. Instead, Yanni Loukissas argues in All Data Are Local , we should approach data sets with an awareness that data are created by humans and their dutiful machines, at a time, in a place, with the instruments at hand, for audiences that are conditioned to receive them. All data are local. The term data set implies something discrete, complete, and portable, but it is none of those things. Examining a series of data sources important for understanding the state of public life in the United States--Harvard's Arnold Arboretum, the Digital Public Library of America, UCLA's Television News Archive, and the real estate marketplace Zillow--Loukissas shows us how to analyze data settings rather than data sets. Loukissas sets out six principles: all data are local; data have complex attachments to place; data are collected from heterogeneous sources; data and algorithms are inextricably entangled; interfaces recontextualize data; and data are indexes to local knowledge. He then provides a set of practical guidelines to follow. To make his argument, Loukissas employs a combination of qualitative research on data cultures and exploratory data visualizations. Rebutting the "myth of digital universalism," Loukissas reminds us of the meaning-making power of the local. 606 $aElectronic information resource literacy 606 $aMedia literacy 615 0$aElectronic information resource literacy. 615 0$aMedia literacy. 676 $a025.042 700 $aLoukissas$b Yanni A$g(Yanni Alexander),$0789421 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910322660103321 996 $aAll data are local$92786683 997 $aUNINA