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Intro to Arduino – mapping the urban environment
During this four hour workshop, offered by Creative Coding Utrecht, participants will learn the basics of Arduino. Barnard, the instructor, will give an introduction to his work as a hardware hacker and bring along a selection of sensors. The participants will be given tasked with connecting the sensor to the micro controller to map a…
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Datafied Society + Gender and Postcolonial Studies
Coordination: Gerwin van Schie (gerwin@dataschool.nl) & V. Rittmann (v.d.rittmann@students.uu.nl) The Datafied Society Research Platform and Data School are steadily growing into full sized research groups. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the types of research that are being done, a good communication with neighbouring disciplines is of the utmost importance. This event will assist in…
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Working paper – Walking as method in data studies
Maranke Wieringa & Karin van Es (d.d. 17 August 2018) Walking is ingrained in human, and especially urban (Amato 2004), culture. Recently, there has been a wave of structured, reflective walks in the city aimed at contributing to the agenda of “data studies” (Kennedy 2018). In this paper we seek to parse out the design…
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Call for Participants | Data School Summer School 2018: ‘Studying Culture Through Data’
As of 2017 we at Data School host a Summer School in preparation of the commencing academic year. This summer we are opening up our 5-day crash course in data practices and digital methods, to students (and non-students) from outside Utrecht University as well. We are happy to invite you to the 2018 Data School summer…
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Workshop: Strategies of Facebook’s data processing factory
by Lucia Dossin and Lídia Pereira Topic modeling, algorithmic clustering and profiling are common practices of social networks. Users are characterized by, for instance, inferring psychological traits though Facebook Likes. This analysis is then used to target advertising and steer user behavior. Recently, this practice has caused public outrage when it appeared Facebook’s ad profiling…