Co-predicting weather in a big data society

Lin, Yuwei and Bates, Jo and Goodale, Paula (2014) Co-predicting weather in a big data society. In: Conference of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP 14), 2-4 July 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece. (Unpublished)

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Creators:

Lin, Yuwei and Bates, Jo and Goodale, Paula

Description/Abstract:

This poster presentation investigates contemporary practices associated with the 'citizen scientific' culture, and how crowd-sourced user-generated data (may they be qualitative or quantitative, a single piece or aggregated information) collected and collated through these practices shape today's data-saturated society. Contemporary 'big data' infrastructures are difficult to study because the vastness of data generated, processed and used by different means and from different sources, blurs the boundaries between individuals, groups, communities, organisations. Whilst citizen scientific projects that solicit crowd-sourced data and information are becoming popular, how are these crowd-sourced data and information being integrated into 'big data' infrastructures?

This work is part of the UK AHRC-funded 'The Secret Life of a Weather Datum' project.

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Conference or Workshop Item

Date:

2014

Funders:

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Event Location:

Thessaloniki, Greece

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The secret life of a weather datum

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