The ‘Lives of Data’ workshop, 05-07 January 2017, brought together a diverse group of interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners to reflect upon the historical and emergent conditions of data-driven knowledge production in India and South Asia. The workshop initiated wide-ranging conversations on history of statistics, media and computational cultures, politics and practices of data-driven governance, and Big Data infrastructures and imaginaries.
Call for Abstracts: http://sarai.net/call-for-abstracts-lives-of-data-workshop/
Workshop Programme: http://sarai.net/lives-of-data-workshop-january-5-7-2017/
A detailed report of the workshop is available on this LINK.
Audio recordings from the workshop are available below:
Introductory Remarks by Sandeep Mertia, Sarai-CSDS
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Session #2 – Stochastic Life-Worlds
Chair: Awadhendra Sharan, Sarai-CSDS
Affect and Number in Cricket: Fairness and the Duckworth-Lewis Model
Sivakumar Arumugam, University of Chicago
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Session #3 – Thinking Tech, Doing Data
Chair: Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Centre for the Internet & Society
Making Budget Data Machinable
Gaurav Godhwani, DataKind and CBGA
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Understanding the Journey of Data from the Eyes of a Practitioner
Samayita Ghosh, Outline India
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Collecting Open Data: Tools, Practices, Limitations, Politics
Guneet Narula, DataMeet and Akvo
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Session #4 – Materiality is the Message: Text, Film, Data
Chair: Ravi Vasudevan, Sarai-CSDS
Programming the Intermission: Computation, Labor, Distribution and the Blaze Advertising Network
Karl Mendonca, University of California Santa Clara
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Data Lives of Humanities Text
PP Sneha, Centre for the Internet & Society
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Session #5 – Liminal Data: Between the Field and the Cloud
Chair: Ravi Sundaram, Sarai-CSDS
Experiencing ‘Data’ vs. Data as Experience: An Account of Fieldwork in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
Nasir Uddin, University of Chittagong
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Broken Data
Preeti Mudliar, IIIT Bangalore
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Semi-Digital Lives of Data
Sandeep Mertia, Sarai-CSDS
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Session #6 – The Early State of Statistics
Chair: Ravi Sundaram, Sarai-CSDS
Of Mythical Families in Mythical Cities: Small Family Propaganda and the City in India, 1954-77
Aprajita Sarcar, Queen’s University
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Sampling Choice: An Early History of the NSS and National Planning as Visions of Statistical Inclusion
Poornima Paidipaty, Cambridge University
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Session #7 – Thinking Policy, Doing Data
Chair: Reetika Khera, IIT Delhi
New Data Publics: Lessons from National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Deepti Bharthur, IT for Change
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Schooling and Literacy: A Critical Reading of Large Surveys in India
M.V. Srinivasan, NCERT
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Session #8 – Government as a Platform
Chair: Sandeep Mertia, Sarai-CSDS
Making the MIS Sacrosanct: The Coming of Quality Education in Haryana
Aakash Solanki, Independent Researcher
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Deregulation by Code: Datafication of Financial Transactions in Post-UID India
Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Centre for the Internet & Society
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Concluding Remarks by Ravi Sundaram, Sarai-CSDS
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