CANCELLED - Cambridge Data School Taster Workshop

CANCELLED What is data? What isn’t data? Where does it come from and what can we do with it? During this workshop, we will collectively devise and implement a participatory data collection and data visualisation project, on themes that will be decided among participants. We might gather data about local trees, water quality, transport, arts, history, activism… whatever the group decides is important and interesting. We will then explore how to gather and represent appropriate data using physical and digital methods. The workshop will also explore the history of data visualisation, and critically examine ways in which it might deceive or elucidate, while acknowledging that data collection and visualisation is always an act of interpretation. Participants will leave the workshop with a greater sense of what CDH (Cambridge Digital Humanities) Data Schools involve, and what happens when materials, ideas, arts and data sciences are brought together to generate new forms of knowledge.