Human-Centered Data Science Lab

At the recent Convening on Urban Data Science, held at the University of Chicago on April 27-29, HDS Lab member Brittany Fiore-Gartland presented a talk titled, “Data Science Studies: Toward a sociotechnical and ethical urban data science.” Dr. Fiore-Gartland made the argument that in the context of urban data science, in which there is an influx of computational scientists working on problems of social good and social science, there is a pressing need to integrate sociotechnical and ethical perspectives into practice. There is still an open question around what are the most successful structures for integrating ethnographic research and translating a sociological perspective on science and technology into something valuable for urban data science collaborations. She articulated one model of integration, discussed several modes of translation, and proposed future directions for the integration of social research into urban data science.