{"446661":{"#nid":"446661","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center  Brown Bag Seminar Series: Yanni Loukissas","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYanni Loukissas\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAssistant Professor, Digital Media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA Field Guide to Local Data\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDespite their proliferation, data are surprisingly limited in scope. Even the largest data sets\u2014promoted as \u2018big data\u2019\u2014are merely aggregated indexes to what ethnographers call \u201clocal knowledge.\u201d This talk calls attention to the myriad ways in which data are local: bounded by places, moments, communities and rituals. It asks, what are the implications of data provenance? Moreover, it offers a set of models for visualizing data in ways that highlight their specificity, rather than cleaning, filtering or effacing those characteristics. Making space for regional categories, historical terminology, place-based values and workplace errors can help us interpret data as an aggregate, rather than a monolithic source of information.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EConsider the following cases: NewsScape, an academic initiative based at UCLA, has accumulated video and transcripts for over three hundred thousand broadcast news programs from around the world; the Digital Public Library of America, a non-profit organization, has linked together millions of digitized resources from libraries, archives and museums; Zillow, an online real estate marketplace, has amassed sales data on more than one hundred million homes in the United States. Each of these endeavors draws together data from disparate locales, enabling panoramic views across distributed sites of collection. However, such vistas also evoke anxiety about the loss of cultural context for data and the material limits of its encoding. Though our capacity to amass diverse sources of data continues to expand, I argue that data can never fully transcend their traditional roles as tokens for more intimate forms of knowledge. This talk will offer insight into the heterogeneous structure of aggregated data sets, challenge dominant narratives around big data, and help audiences think about the varied ways and places in which data are made.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYanni Loukissas is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. His research draws together design and social studies of media technologies. Before coming to Georgia Tech, he was a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he co-coordinated the Program in Art, Design and the Public Domain. He was also a principal at metaLAB, a research project of the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society that explores digital futures for the arts and humanities. Additionally, he has taught at Cornell, MIT, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Originally trained as an architect at Cornell University, he subsequently received a Master of Science and a PhD in Design and Computation at MIT. While at MIT, he worked with the Initiative on Technology and Self, the Media Lab, and the Center for Bits and Atoms. He also completed postdoctoral work at the MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society. He is the author of Co-Designers: Cultures of Computer Simulation in Architecture (Routledge, 2012).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A Field Guide to Local Data"}],"uid":"27774","created_gmt":"2015-09-10 15:54:50","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:18:20","author":"Alishia Farr","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-10-01T12:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-10-01T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-10-01T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-10-01 16:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-10-01 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-10-01 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"hg_media":{"401511":{"id":"401511","type":"image","title":"Yanni Loukissas","body":null,"created":"1449252000","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:00:00","changed":"1475895122","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:02","alt":"Yanni Loukissas","file":{"fid":"75892","name":"profyanni.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/profyanni.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/profyanni.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":83289,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/profyanni.jpg?itok=l395o7gK"}}},"media_ids":["401511"],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4096","name":"brown bag"},{"id":"1946","name":"GVU"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}