We believe in data by humans, even if it is a little messy and informal. The best information about a place always comes from the person standing there. Regardless of their punctuation skills.
Opinion | The Problem With Google’s A.I. Overview
What used to be a meandering journey is now an immediate arrival at your destination.
“Label from Somewhere”: Reflexive Annotating for Situated AI Alignment
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The Peripheral
William Gibson's best novel tells us a lot about where we are and where we might end up.
MyData
The human-centric approach to data is aimed at a fair, sustainable, and prosperous digital society. In such a society, people get value from their data and set the agenda on how it is used. And for organisations, the ethical use of data is always the most attractive option.
Living in Data: A Citizen's Guide to a Better Information Future (Paperback)
Jer Thorp’s analysis of the word “data” in 10,325 New York Times stories written between 1984 and 2018 shows a distinct trend: among the words most closely associated with “data,” we find not only its classic companions “information” and “digital,” but also a variety of new neighbors—from “scandal” and “misinformation” to “ethics,” “friends,” and “play.”To live in data in the twenty-first century
Toward Wayfinding Infrastructure for the Living Web · Atlas Research Group
Our world is getting crazier by the day. Our old maps and compasses weren’t made for this complexity. While new tools may open up amazing possibilities, they also make it easier to lose ourselves – especially when they don’t belong to us, and make us vulnerable to other people’s hidden choices and unsavory intentions about what is worth attending to.
Permissioned Data Diary 4: The Big Picture - Daniel's Leaflets
A special edition of the data diary that sketches out the rough shape of where we're heading.
The Missing Piece: How Location Data is Coming to the AT Protocol
A deep dive into community-driven geolocation schemas, emerging projects, and the future of location-aware social networking on Bluesky
Treating data like land — data sovereignty in the AI age - ICT
Artificial intelligence front and center at North America’s largest Indigenous tech conference
Spawning.ai
We believe that a future of consenting data will benefit both AI development and the people it is trained on.
Spatial Data Science
Data science is concerned with finding answers to questions on the basis of available data, and communicating that effort. Besides showing the results, this communication involves sharing the data used, but also exposing the path that led to the answers in a comprehensive and reproducible way. It also acknowledges the fact that available data may not be sufficient to answer questions, and that any answers are conditional on the data collection or sampling protocols employed.
InnerNets - Make internet personal again
Our mission is to bring the right information to the right person, in the right way.
Everything you always wanted to know about migrations - Slidev
"A deep dive into Atmosphere account migrations, even adversarial migrations\n"