The Other 90% – Creating Data Studies

The other ninety per cent: Thinking with data science, creating data studies – an interview with Joseph Dumit

Joseph Dumit and Dawn Nafus

Editor’s note: This is a jointly edited transcript of an interview with Joseph Dumit (professor of Science & Technology Studies and Anthropology) about the Data Studies undergraduate minor being designed at University of California at Davis. This programme began in late 2015, and is led jointly by Dumit and Duncan Temple Lang, director of the Data Science Initiative at UCD, professor of Statistics, and formerly of Bell Labs.

2018  “The other ninety per cent: thinking with data science, creating data studies – Joseph Dumit interviewed by Dawn Nafus,” in Ethnography for a data-saturated world, eds. Hannah Knox and Dawn Nafus. Manchester UK: Manchester University Press. Pp. 252-274.

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