Looking Outwards 08

Looking Outwards 08: The Creative Practice of an Individual

Catherine D’Ignazio’s Feminist Data, Feminist Futures lecture was interesting to me. Catherine is a professor at MIT, artist, and software developer who focuses on feminism and data literacy. She is from North Carolina and studied International Relations at Tufts University and received master degree in Studio Art, Design and Theory from Maine College of Art and a Master degree in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. She has a variety of Art and Science background. In the beginning of her talk at Eyeo 2019, she talks about how “we often our work is looking 20 or 30 years into the future, what relationship between the human and technology will look like.” Her works embrace this idea. Her work “Data Feminism” was particularly interesting. Is is very interesting how she takes a feminist approach to data science. She focuses on how to put the data in the service of justice. I think this idea is admirable and fascinating that she is intersecting a humanities principle, feminism, with data science. I like how her work takes an approach in which to be more inclusive. Her other work, DataBasic.io is interesting too. One of the tools included in DataBasic.io is the WTFcsv, which is a web application that returns a summary of the fields, data type, range, and basic descriptive statistics of a CSV file. This tool helps to fill the significant gaps for people who do not know how to code and to help them understand data more easily. I like how she approaches the data science with humanitatrian view to make it more accessible to more people. I would like to create a work like hers, incorporating different aspects and perspectives to the data science.

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