Ethnography for a data-saturated world

Front Matter; Dedication; Contents; List Of Figures; Notes On Contributors; Preface And Acknowledgements; Introduction: Ethnography For A Data-saturated World; Part I: Ethnographies Of Data Science; Data Scientists: A New Faction Of The Transnational Field Of Statistics; Becoming A Real Data Scientist: Expertise, Flexibility And Lifelong Learning; Engineering Ethnography; Part Ii: Knowing Data; 'if Everything Is Information': Archives And Collecting On The Frontiers Of Data-driven Science; Baseless Data? Modelling, Ethnography And The Challenge Of The Anthropocene Operative Ethnographies And Large Numberspart Iii: Experiments In/of Data And Ethnography; Transversal Collaboration: An Ethnography In/of Computational Social Science; The Data Walkshop And Radical Bottom-up Data Knowledge; Working Ethnographically With Sensor Data; The Other Ninety Per Cent: Thinking With Data Science, Creating Data Studies -- An Interview With Joseph Dumit; Index Edited By Hannah Knox, Dawn Nafus. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.