Making Arguments with Data

Project: Research

Project participants

  • Kargin, 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. Anatomy of Haar Wavelet Filter and Its Implementation for Signal Processing
  2. How to combine collaboration scripts and heuristic worked examples to foster mathematical argumentation - when working memory matters
  3. Single Robust Proportional-Derivative Control for Friction Compensation in Fast and Precise Motion Systems With Actuator Constraint
  4. Spatial mislocalization as a consequence of sequential coding of stimuli
  5. Ant colony optimization algorithm and artificial immune system applied to a robot route
  6. A geometric algorithm for the output functional controllability in general manipulation systems and mechanisms
  7. Substructure, subgraph, and walk counts as measures of the complexity of graphs and molecules.
  8. Sequencing and fading worked examples and collaboration scripts to foster mathematical argumentation - working memory capacity matters for fading
  9. Classical PI Controllers with Anti-Windup Techniques Applied on Level Systems
  10. Development and validation of a method for the determination of trace alkylphenols and phthalates in the atmosphere
  11. Development and evaluation of a training program for dialysis nurses - An intervention study
  12. Walk counts, labyrinthicity, and complexity of acyclic and cyclic graphs and molecules.
  13. Dynamic performance
  14. High-precision frequency measurements: indispensable tools at the core of the molecular-level analysis of complex systems.
  15. Evaluating A Teaching-Learning Sequence (TLS) About Acid-Base Reactions In Upper Secondary School
  16. Web 2.0 Tasks in Action
  17. Investigation of the sulfur speciation in petroleum products by capillary gas chromatography with ICP-collision cell-MS detection
  18. Algorithmisches Management
  19. Resource availability determines the importance of niche-based versus stochastic community assembly in grasslands