Data Science: The need for politics and creativity
Setting up data science institutions poses rather fundamental questions: What kind of institutions are we building? Who are we serving? What are the politics? In this talk I would like take stock of the larger context: a world lacking futures, fragmented academic disciplines, and the dystopian use of technology.
CEDAS Seminar 2022-02-24 by Felix Reidl
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Abstract: I am currently tasked with setting up an institution similar to CEDAS, which poses a rather fundamental question: What kind of institutions are we building? Who are we serving? What are the politics?
In this talk I would like take stock of the larger context: a world lacking futures, fragmented academic disciplines, and the dystopian use of technology. While we cannot hope to solve any of these problems, I argue that we can and should resits the underlying trends. To that end, I propose that our institutions should be constructed first and foremost around creativity and participation and what that could mean in practice.
About the speaker: Felix Reidl is the director for the Birkbeck Institute for Data Analytics, which was set up to facilitate interdisciplinary communication and research. In his own research, he aims to bring the theory of sparse graph algorithms into practice.
