Datasets
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Datasets¶
Algorithms require data, data requires algorithms: “the one is pretty near useless without the other”. (Goffey, Andrew. „Algorithm“. In Software Studies. A Lexicon., 15–20. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008.)
Mimi Onuoha – The Library of Missing Datasets 2.0 (2018)¶
The second installment in The Library of Missings Datasets series focuses on blackness. Black folks are both over-collected and under-represented in American datasets, featuring strongly as objects of collection but rarely as subjects with agency over collection, ownership, and power. Version 2.0 of The Library of Missing Datasets speaks to this reality.
Caroline Sinders – Feminist Data Set (2017 - current)¶
https://carolinesinders.com/feminist-data-set/
Anna Ridler – Myriad (Tulips) (2018)¶
“This piece is the training set - the information given to the algorithm from which it learns - that was used to create the work, Mosaic Virus. Ten thousand, or a myriad, of photos of tulips were taken over the course of tulip season and each has been categorised by hand, revealing the human aspect that sits behind machine learning.”
