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. Median based algorithm as an entropy function for noise detectionin wavelet trees for data reconciliation
  2. Advanced Neural Classifier-Based Effective Human Assistance Robots Using Comparable Interactive Input Assessment Technique
  3. A Wavelet Based Algorithm without a Priori Knowledge of Noise Level for Gross Errors Detection
  4. Fostering Circularity: Building a Local Community and Implementing Circular Processes
  5. Calculation of Average Mutual Information (AMI) and false-nearest neighbors (FNN) for the estimation of embedding parameters of multidimensional time series in matlab
  6. Modeling and Performance Analysis of a Node in Fault Tolerant Wireless Sensor Networks
  7. Discourse Analyses in Chat-based CSCL with Learning Protocols
  8. Database Publishing Without Databases
  9. A Lightweight Simulation Model for Soft Robot's Locomotion and its Application to Trajectory Optimization
  10. Transformer with Tree-order Encoding for Neural Program Generation
  11. Closed-loop control of product geometry by using an artificial neural network in incremental sheet forming with active medium
  12. Preventive Emergency Detection Based on the Probabilistic Evaluation of Distributed, Embedded Sensor Networks
  13. A transfer operator based computational study of mixing processes in open flow systems
  14. Automatic enumeration of all connected subgraphs.
  15. Methodologies for Noise and Gross Error Detection using Univariate Signal-Based Approaches in Industrial Application
  16. Enabling Road Condition Monitoring with an on-board Vehicle Sensor Setup
  17. Efficient and accurate ℓ p-norm multiple kernel learning
  18. Neural network-based adaptive fault-tolerant control for strict-feedback nonlinear systems with input dead zone and saturation
  19. Different complex word problems require different combinations of cognitive skills
  20. Semantic Parsing for Knowledge Graph Question Answering with Large Language Models
  21. Control of the inverse pendulum based on sliding mode and model predictive control
  22. Clustering Hydrological Homogeneous Regions and Neural Network Based Index Flood Estimation for Ungauged Catchments
  23. Latent structure perceptron with feature induction for unrestricted coreference resolution
  24. Selecting and Adapting Methods for Analysis and Design in Value-Sensitive Digital Social Innovation Projects: Toward Design Principles
  25. Modeling Effective and Ineffective Knowledge Communication and Learning Discourses in CSCL with Hidden Markov Models
  26. Problem structuring for transitions
  27. Using Decision Trees and Reinforcement Learning for the Dynamic Adjustment of Composite Sequencing Rules in a Flexible Manufacturing System
  28. Spatial mislocalization as a consequence of sequential coding of stimuli
  29. DialogueMaps: Supporting interactive transdisciplinary dialogues with a web-based tool for multi-layer knowledge maps
  30. Real-time RDF extraction from unstructured data streams
  31. A Multivariate Method for Dynamic System Analysis
  32. On the Decoupling and Output Functional Controllability of Robotic Manipulation
  33. Analysis of long-term statistical data of cobalt flows in the EU
  34. Supporting the Development and Implementation of a Digitalization Strategy in SMEs through a Lightweight Architecture-based Method
  35. FFTSMC with Optimal Reference Trajectory Generated by MPC in Robust Robotino Motion Planning with Saturating Inputs
  36. Retest effects in matrix test performance