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. Noise Detection for Biosignals Using an Orthogonal Wavelet Packet Tree Denoising Algorithm
  2. Setting controller parameters through a minimum strategy with a weighted least squares method
  3. Comparing Two Voltage Observers in a Sensorsystem using Repetitive Control
  4. Noise level estimation using haar wavelet packet trees for sensor robust outlier detection
  5. Vision-Based Deep Learning Algorithm for Detecting Potholes
  6. Kinematic self-calibration of non-contact five-axis measuring machine using improved genetic algorithm.
  7. Binary Random Nets I
  8. Using learning protocols for knowledge acquisition and problem solving with individual and group incentives
  9. Homogenization modeling of thin-layer-type microstructures
  10. Closed-loop control of product geometry by using an artificial neural network in incremental sheet forming with active medium
  11. Performance and Comfort when Using Motion-Controlled Tools in Complex Tasks
  12. A simple fuzzy controller for robot manipulators with bounded inputs
  13. Microstructural development of as-cast AM50 during Constrained Friction Processing: grain refinement and influence of process parameters
  14. Latent structure perceptron with feature induction for unrestricted coreference resolution
  15. A change of values is in the air
  16. Analysis of Complexity Reduction in Kalman Filters Through Decoupling Control With Chattered Inputs in PMSM
  17. Volume of Imbalance Container Prediction using Kalman Filter and Long Short-Term Memory
  18. Improving short-term academic performance in the flipped classroom using dynamic geometry software
  19. A two-stage Kalman estimator for motion control using model predictive strategy
  20. A reference architecture for the integration of EMIS and ERP-Systems
  21. How to support teachers to give feedback to modelling tasks effectively? Results from a teacher-training-study in the Co²CA project
  22. Interrogating the Phenomenon of Suffering and Smiling by Nigerians: A Mixed Methods Study
  23. In situ synchrotron diffraction of the solidification of Mg4Y3Nd
  24. Stakeholder involvement for Water Framework Directive implementation in Germany
  25. Front in the mouth, front in the word
  26. Old Wine in New Bottles? The Case of Self-compassion and Neuroticism
  27. Die Liebe der Soziologie
  28. Antigott
  29. The use of force against terrorists
  30. Geometrical Accuracy in Two-Stage Incremental Sheet Forming with Active Medium