Data Journeys in the Sciences. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sabina Leonelli, Niccolò Tempini.
• Editors: Leonelli, Sabina; Tempini, Niccolò
• Contents: Preface: A Roadmap for Readers.- Chapter 1. Learning from Data Journeys (Sabina Leonelli).- Part I: Origins: Data Collection, Preparation and Reporting.- Chapter 2. Material Origins of a Data Journey in Ocean Science: How Sampling and Scaffolding Shape Data Practices (G Halfmann).- Chapter 3. What Data Get to Travel in High Energy Physics? The Construction of Data at the Large Hadron Collider (K Karaca).- Chapter 4. Tracing Data Journeys Through Medical Case Reports: Conceptualizing Case Reports Not as 'Anecdotes' but Productive Epistemic Constructs, or Why Zebras Can Be Useful (R Ankeny).- Part II: Clustering: Data Ordering and Visualization.- Chapter 5. From Dirty Data to Tidy Facts: Clustering Practices in Plant Phenomics and Business Cycle Analysis (M Boumans and S Leonelli).- Chapter 6. The Datum in Context: Measuring Frameworks, Data Series and the Journeys of Individual Datums (M Morgan).- Chapter 7. Data Journeys Beyond Databases in Systems Biology: Cytoscape and NDEx (W Bechtel).- Chapter 8. A Data Journey through Dataset-Centric Population Genomics (J Griesemer).- Part III: Sharing: Data access, Dissemination and Quality Assessment.- Chapter 9. Sharing Data, Repairing Practices: On the Reflexivity of Astronomical Data Journeys (G Hoeppe).- Chapter 10. Evaluating Data Journeys: Climategate, Synthetic Data and the Benchmarking of Methods for Climate Data Processing (W Parker).- Chapter 11. The Babel of Drugs: on the Consequences of Evidential Pluralism in Pharmaceutical Regulation and Regulatory Data Journeys (N Tempini and D Teira).- Part IV: Interlude.- Chapter 12. Most Often, What Is Transmitted is Transformed (T Porter).- Part V: Interpreting: Data Transformation, Analysis and Reuse.- Chapter 13. The Reuse of Digital Computer Data: Transformation, Recombination and Generation of Data Mixes in Big Data Science (N Tempini).- Chapter 14. Data, Meta Data and Pattern Data: How Franz Boas Mobilized Anthropometric Data, 1890 and Beyond (S Müller-Wille).- Chapter 15. Radiocarbon Dating in Archaeology: Triangulation and Traceability (A Wylie).- Part VI: Ends: Data Actionability and Accountability.- Chapter 16. 'Overcoming the Bottleneck': Knowledge Architectures for Genomic Data Interpretation in Oncology (A Cambrosio, J Campbell, E Vignola-Gagné, P Keating, B Jordan and P Bourret).- Chapter 17. Realizing Healthful Housing: Devices for Data Travel in Public Health and Urban Redevelopment in the 20th Century United States (E Ramsden).- Chapter 18. From Washington DC to Washington State: The Global Burden of Diseases data basis and the political economy of global health (J-P Gaudilliere and C Gasnier).- Chapter 19. Data Journeys in Art? Warranting and Witnessing the 'Fake' and the 'Real' in Art Authentication (C Coopmans and B Rappert).- Part VII: Afterword.- Chapter 20. Data, Contexts, Purposes (H Longino).- Chapter 21. Visual Metaphors: Howardena Pindell, Video Drawings, 1975 (N Tempini).- Subject Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (412 pages)
• Subjects: Philosophy; Philosophy and science; History; Science -- History; Science -- General; History of science; Interdisciplinary studies; Science -- Philosophy & Social Aspects; Philosophy of science
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030371777
• Related ISBNs: 9783030371760
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