Data Infrastructure Literacy Reshaping Practices of Measurement,

Monitoring and Evidence

Carolin Gerlitz (@cgrltz) University of Siegen

Liliana Bounegru (@bb_liliana) University of Groningen

University of Ghent

Jonathan Gray (@jwyg) University of Bath

Drawing on two papers-in-progress

Towards a Literacy for Data Infrastructures

Jonathan Gray Carolin Gerlitz

Liliana Bounegru

Performing Data through Journalism Code: Mapping

Code Ecologies for the Valorisation of Data on GitHub

Liliana Bounegru Tommaso Venturini

Mapping Journalism Code Ecologiesfor the Valorisation of Data on GitHub

“To attend to the social life of method ... is to treat method as a phenomenon in its own right.”

(Law, Ruppert & Savage, “The Double Social Life of Methods,” 2011)

1. A cartography of journalism code. 2. The mediating capacities of data valorisation code.

1. A cartography of journalism code. 2. The mediating capacities of data valorisation code.

https://github.com/

https://source.opennews.org/en-US/organizations/

1. A cartography of journalism code. 2. The mediating capacities of data valorisation code.

“Numbers both are and have relations”

(Day, Lury & Wakeford, “Number Ecologies: Numbers and Numbering Practices,” 2014)

http://www.yasiv.com/github

california-civic-data-coalition/django-calaccess-raw-data

unitedstates/congress-legislators

sunlightlabs/openstates

wireservice/ffs

openelections/dashboard

newsapps/django-boundaryservice openaddresses/openaddressespostcss/postcss

unitedstates/congress

dc-js/dc.js

18f/web-design-standards

mail-in-a-box/mailinabox

intridea/hashie

feross/webtorrent

openelections/openelections-core

ireapps/first-news-app

newsdev/elex

caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets

ireapps/census

caolan/highland

tabulapdf/tabula

opencivicdata/docs.opencivicdata.org

opennews/srccon-datadatadesk/python-googlegeocoder

prosemirror/prosemirror

efforg/https-everywhere

quartz/bad-data-guide

ryanpitts/journalists-guide-datasets

dwillis/hulse

propublica/table-setter

shazow/urllib3

leaverou/bliss

wireservice/lookup

ascheink/nytimes-style

propublica/campaign_cash

california-civic-data-coalition/django-calaccess-campaign-browser

theupshot/statement

nytimes/fech

datamade/data-making-guidelineswireservice/agate-excel

marak/faker.js

facebook/relay

jamesturk/scrapelib

propublica/timeline-setter

duckduckgo/duckduckgonprapps/dailygraphics

sunlightlabs/opencongress

18f/analytics-reporter

tldr-pages/tldr

sunlightlabs/scout

datadesk/latimes-table-stacker

netflix/falcor

https://github.com/newsdev/elex

https://github.com/motherjones/grunt-gss-pull