Alright, chuck! Our Miranda has come on down to talk to us about the nature of data. What is it? Where does it come from? Who made it? Why does the very word strike us dumbstruck and have us believe God himself has delivered us capital “F” Facts into our shitty Excel rows? We also talk about how middle-brow podcasts are providing us with a bad education. So smarten up dumdum and let Miranda pour creamy dollops of digital ethnography knowledge in your ear.

Also! After listening to the edit, Miranda would like to add this very important point:

“I am also slightly concerned I sound a bit like a flat earther who doesn’t believe in science. Can we also just state in the show notes that I do believe in science?”

There you go. Loves the science, she does.

Reading

• Context is not just a variable — the case for data ethnographies – Miranda’s blog post. Do read it!
  
• Data Before the Fact - David Rosenberg - Paper she mentions
  
• “Raw Data” Is an Oxymoron – Edited by Lisa Gitelman – Book which the Rosenberg paper is in
  
• How Thick Data changed Netflix – Antropología 2.0 Blog
  
• Chickens come home to roost – Urban Dictionary