Making Arguments with Data

Project: Research

Project participants

  • Kargin-Zahn, Fatma (Project staff)
  • Savic, Selena (Project manager, academic)
  • Martins, Jann Patrick (Project staff)

Description

Whether we are discussing measures in order to ‘flatten the curve’ in a pandemic, or what to wear given the most recent weather forecast, we base arguments on patterns observed in data. With this teaching research project, we propose an approach to practicing ethics when working with large datasets and designing data representations. We use and continuously re-programme web-based interfaces to sort, organize and explore a community-ran archive of radio signals. Inspired by feminist critique of technoscience and recent problematizations of digital literacy, we argue that one can navigate machine learning models in a multi-narrative manner. We hold that the main challenge to digital ethics comes from lingering forms of colonialism and extractive relationships that easily move in and out of the digital domain. Countering both the unbased narratives of techno-optimism, and the universalizing critique of technology, this approach to data and networks enables a situated critique of datafication and correlationism from within.

The project ist funded by FHNW Lehrfonds, Hochschullehre 2025 (49'378 CHF)

StatusFinished
Period01.09.2201.10.23

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Publications

  1. Analyzing multivariate dynamics using cross-recurrence quantification analysis (CRQA), diagonal-cross-recurrence profiles (DCRP), and multidimensional recurrence quantification analysis (MdRQA) - A tutorial in R
  2. archiDART: a R package allowing root system architecture analysis using Data Analysis of Root Tracings (DART) output files
  3. Database Publishing Without Databases
  4. Agile knowledge graph testing with TESTaLOD
  5. How to get really smart: Modeling retest and training effects in ability testing using computer-generated figural matrix items
  6. Semi-supervised learning for structured output variables
  7. Evolutionary generation of dispatching rule sets for complex dynamic scheduling problems
  8. Different complex word problems require different combinations of cognitive skills
  9. Simultaneous Constrained Adaptive Item Selection for Group-Based Testing
  10. Noise Detection for Biosignals Using an Orthogonal Wavelet Packet Tree Denoising Algorithm
  11. Applying Bayesian Parameter Estimation to A/B Tests in e-Business Applications
  12. Problem structuring for transitions
  13. Diffusion-driven microstructure evolution in OpenCalphad
  14. How to combine collaboration scripts and heuristic worked examples to foster mathematical argumentation - when working memory matters
  15. An Improved Approach to the Semi-Process-Oriented Implementation of Standardised ERP-Systems
  16. Global temporal typing patterns in foreign language writing
  17. Gain Scheduling Controller for Improving Level Control Performance
  18. Retest effects in matrix test performance
  19. Anatomy of Haar Wavelet Filter and Its Implementation for Signal Processing
  20. Template-based Question Answering using Recursive Neural Networks
  21. Sequencing and fading worked examples and collaboration scripts to foster mathematical argumentation - working memory capacity matters for fading
  22. Four Methods to Distinguish between Fractal Dimensions in Time Series through Recurrence Quantification Analysis