nothing is objective
It teaches them that data is created, not found; and that creating it well demands humanity, rather than objectivity
Melanie Feinberg • The Myth of Objective Data
From the perspective of scientific visualization, the idea that machines allow us to see true has long been outmoded. In everyday discourse, however, there is a continuing tendency to characterize the objective as that which speaks for itself without the interference of human perception, interpretation, judgment, and so on.
Melanie Feinberg • The Myth of Objective Data
Changing a culture is a major undertaking, and a data culture is no exception. But thinking of these issues as cultural in the first place can help to open the imagination
Melanie Feinberg • The Myth of Objective Data
despite the undeniably consistent picture that we see across studies of scientific data collection, the desire to remove the human from the data in order to enhance objectivity remains very strong. Invariably, it seems like the ethical move.
Melanie Feinberg • The Myth of Objective Data
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the degree to which attention discourse is invested in a clear “subject” looking at an “object”: a binary relation that many of those other methods have challenged.
Dirt • Dirt: Disordered Attention
Data is always an abstraction of reality based on underlying assumptions as to how to categorize the unstructured phenomena of the real world.