{"id":167137,"date":"2014-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/msr-research-item\/data-and-life-on-the-street\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T20:35:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T03:35:13","slug":"data-and-life-on-the-street","status":"publish","type":"msr-research-item","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/data-and-life-on-the-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Data and life on the street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/ast.io\/about-alex-taylor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alex S Taylor<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Si\u00e2n Lindley, Tim Regan, David Sweeney (2014) <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/ast.io\/download\/2231\/data-life-street-2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Data and life on the street<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <em>Big Data & Society<\/em> 1(2)<\/p>\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<blockquote><p>What does the abundance of data and proliferation of data-making methods mean for the ordinary person, the person on the street? And, what could they come to mean? In this paper, we present an overview of a year-long project to examine just such questions and complicate, in some ways, what it is to ask them. The project is a collective exercise in which we\u2014a mixture of social scientists, designers and makers\u2014and those living and working on one street in Cambridge (UK), Tenison Road, are working to think through how data might be materialised and come to matter. The project aims to better understand the specificities and contingencies that arise when data is produced and used in place. Mid-way through the project, we use this commentary to give some background to the work and detail one or two of the troubles we\u2019ve encountered in putting locally-relevant data to work. We also touch on a methodological standpoint we are working our way into and through, one that we hope complicates the separations between subject and object in data-making and opens up possibilities for a generative refiguring of the manifold relations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .asset-content --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex S Taylor, Si\u00e2n Lindley, Tim Regan, David Sweeney (2014) Data and life on the street, Big Data & Society 1(2) What does the abundance of data and proliferation of data-making methods mean for the ordinary person, the person on the street? And, what could they come to mean? 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