Cambridge Data School Taster Workshop

During this workshop, we will collectively devise and implement a participatory data collection and data visualisation project.

Speaker

Dr Eleanor Dare, Data Schools Convenor; Research Associate; Affiliated Lecturer; Former Methods Fellow at Cambridge Digital Humanities

Description

What is data? What isn’t data? Where does it come from and what can we do with it? During this workshop, we will collectively devise and implement a participatory data collection and data visualisation project, on themes that will be decided among participants. We might gather data about local trees, water quality, transport, arts, history, activism… whatever the group decides is important and interesting. We will then explore how to gather and represent appropriate data using physical and digital methods.

The workshop will also explore the history of data visualisation and critically examine ways in which it might deceive or elucidate, while acknowledging that data collection and

visualisation is always an act of interpretation. Participants will leave the workshop with a greater sense of what CDH (Cambridge Digital Humanities) Data Schools involve, and what happens when materials, ideas, arts and data sciences are brought together to generate new forms of knowledge.

For more information, visit the CDH Website.

Access

Events are free and open to all unless otherwise stated.

If you have specific accessibility needs for this event please get in touch. We will do our best to accommodate any requests.

There may be photography at this event.