Data Studies

This is by no means exhaustive.  These are references I find particularly insightful and useful. It is also material I use and have used for teaching.  I am continuously updating this page, and if you have suggestions do not hesitate to forward them.

Data Citation

• Citing Data Files (University of Toronto, CHASS)

Data Reading Lists

• Metaphors of Data
• Zotero Database Digital Humanities

Journals

• Big Data & Society (SAGE)

Books

• Atlas of Cyberspace (2001) Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin
• The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way we Live (2010) Daniel Dorling, Mark Newman, and Anna Barford
• The Credit Scoring Toolkit (2007) Raymond Anderson
• Data, Now Bigger and Better! (2015) ed. Tom Boellstorff and Bill Maurer
• The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures & Their Consequences (2014) Rob Kitchin
  • Preface, Chapters 1 & 4 available online
• Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart & Online (1999) Bonnie A. Nardi and Vicki L. O’Day
  • Chapter 4 available online
• LifeLogging: Personal Big Data (2014) NOW: The Essence of Knowledge (pre-print)
• Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age & Online (2006) Joseph Turow
• The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning (1998) Alain Desrosières (trans.)
• The Politics of Numbers (1987) ed. William Alonso and Paul Starr
• Predictive Policing: The Role of Crime Forecasting in Law Enforcement Operations (2013) RAND Corporation
• Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing our Lives (2014) Mark Graham and William H. Dutton
• Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences & Online (1999) Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star
• Surveillance: Power, Problems, and Politics (2009) ed. Sean P. Hier and Josh Greenberg
• Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life (1995) Theodore M. Porter
• When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity & Online (2011) Shoshana Amielle Magnet

Academic Sites/Blogs

• Programmable City
• Oxford Internet Institute
• LSE Media and Communications
• Michael Geist’s Blog
• my heart’s in accra
• Teresa Scassa

Conference Materials

• Code and the City Workshop, Programmable City, Republic of Ireland (Videos)
• Data and the City Workshop, Programmable City, Republic of Ireland (Videos)
• Data Power Conference, Sheffield
• The Internet Policy and Politics Conference, Oxford

Data Related Blogs (also see DataViz page and for more resources)

• DataLibre.ca (Canadian Open Data)
• UK Guardian Data Blog
• Open Access News
• BoingBoing
• CultureLibre.ca ::Carnet droit d’auteur Internet bibliothèques vie numérique par Olivier Charbonneau
• Access !nfo: Open Government Europe
• The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics (Open Access)
• O’Reilly Radar
• ZZZOOOt

Recommended Journal Articles and Conference Papers

• Benefits and Pitfalls of Predictive Policing (2015) Eva Schlehahn, Patrick Aichroth, Sebastian Mann, Rudolf Schreiner, Ulrich Lang, Ifan D. H. Shepherd, and B. L. William Wong, 2015 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference
• Big Brother’s Little Helpers: How ChoicePoint and Other Commercial Data Brokers Collect and Package Your Data for Law Enforcement (2004) Chris Jay Hoofnagle, North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation 29(4)
• Building Biometrics: Knowledge Construction in the Democratic Control of Surveillance Technology (2011) Jonathan Bright, Surveillance & Society 9(1/2)
• Deep Tags: Toward a Quantitative Analysis of Online Pornography (2014) Antoine Mazières, Mathieu Trachman, Jean-Philippe Cointet, Baptiste Coulmont, and Christophe Prieur, Porn Studies 1(1/2)
• Discipline and Power in the Digital Age: The Case of the US Consumer Data Broker Industry (2014) Leanne Roderick, Critical Sociology 40(5)
• The Economic Geography of the Internet’s Infrastructure (2002) Edward J. Malecki, Economic Geography 78(4)
• Surveillance in the Digital Enclosure (2007) Mark Andrejevic, The Communication Review 10(4)
• The Trouble with Algorithmic Decisions: An Analytic Road Map to Examine Efficiency and Fairness in Automated and Opaque Decision Making (2016) Tal Zarsky and Malte Ziewitz, Science, Technology, & Human Values 41(1)
• What Makes Big Data, Big Data? Exploring the Ontological Characteristics of 26 Datasets (2016) Rob Kitchin, Gavin McArdle, Big Data & Society  3(1)

Grey Literature

• Canada’s Big Data Consortium Provost and Vice President Academic, Ryerson University
  • [Report] Closing Canada’s Big Data Talent Gap (October 2015)
• Deloitte
  • [Report] Driving Economic and Social Growth: Designing an Open Data Strategy for Public Sector Organizations
• Jones Lang LaSalle (JLS)
  • [Report] The Business of Cities 2013: What do 150 City Indexes and Benchmarking Studies tell us about the Urban World in 2013? (November 2013)
  • [Report] The Business of Cities 2015: What do 200 City Indices tell us about the Urban World in 2015?
• McKinsey & Company
  • [Report] Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition, and Productivity (June 2011)
  • [Report] Open Data: Unlocking Innovation and Performance with Liquid Information (October 2013)
• Net!Works
  • [Report] Smart Cities Applications and Requirements (May 2011)
• The New Inquiry
  • [Article] The Anxieties of Big Data (May 2014)
• Quilliam Foundation
  • [Report] Jihad Trending: A Comprehensive Analysis of Online Extremism and How to Counter it (May 2014)
• Society & Space
  • [Article] What Does a Critical Data Studies Look Like, and Why do we Care? Seven Points for a Critical Approach to ‘Big Data’
• Upturn
  • [Report] Civil Rights, Big Data, and Our Algorithmic Future (September 2014)

In the News

• TheUpshot (New York Times)
  • Surprising New Evidence Shows Bias in Police Use of Force but Not in Shootings (July 2016)
• The Washington Post
  • Police Shootings (2015)

Media

• The Data Brokers 60 Minutes
• New Insights on Poverty (2007) TED
• The River of Myths (2013) Gapminder
• Who’s Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics (1995) National Film Board (NFB)
• [Podcast] How Companies are ‘Defining Your Worth’ Online (February 2012) Joseph Turow, , Fresh Air, National Public Radio

Government Resources

Canada (Federal)

• Canada’s Action Plan on Open Government 2012-2014
• Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)
  • [Report] On the Data Trail: How detailed information about you gets into the hands of organizations with whom you have no relationship (April 2006)
• Credit Reporting Consumer Information
• Directive on Open Government Treasury Board of Canada – Secretariat
• Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
  • Understanding your Credit Report and Credit Score
• [Report] Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure Vision, Mission and Roadmap – The Way Forward (2012)
• Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada
  • Making an ATIA Request to the OIC
• Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC)
  • [Report] Data Brokers: A Look at the Canadian and American Landscape (September 2014)
• Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC)
  • [Report] Credit Reporting: How Are Consumers Faring (August 2005)
• 1929 Royal Commission on Broadcasting
• 1949-1951 Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences
• Canadian Broadcasting Policy (Library of Parliament Research Publication)

Canada (Provincial)

• Consumer Reporting Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. C.33 Government of Ontario
• Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC)
  • [Report] Big Privacy: Bridging Big Data and the Personal Data Ecosystem Through Privacy by Design(December 2013)
  • [Report] A Primer on Metadata: Separating Fact from Fiction (July 2013)
  • Privacy by Design (PbD)

International

• Ireland
  • [Report] Assessing the Demand for Big Data and Analytics Skills, 2013-2020 (April 2014) Expert Group on Future Skills Needs
  • Data Protection Commissioner
  • [Report] Digital Archiving in Ireland: National Survey of the Humanities and Social Sciences (2012) Digital Repository of Ireland
• New Zealand
  • [Report] The Development of Electronic Card Transaction Statistics (June 2007)
• United States
  • [Report] 2013 Big Data Report Mass Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC)
  • [Report] Big Data & Analytics: A Major Market Opportunity for MA Includes Delphi Transcript & Findings(January 2013) Mass Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC)
  • [Report] Data Brokers: A Call for Transparency and Accountability (May 2014) Federal Trade Commission
  • [Report] Mass Big Data Report (2014) Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech)
    • [Report] The Massachusetts Big Data Indicators (2015)

Global

• 5 (star) Open Data
• Global Open Data Index: Tracking the State of Government Open Data
• Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)
• Open Data Barometer: Global Rankings
• Open Government Partnership
  • Canada
  • [Report] From Informing to Empowering: Improving Government-Civil Society Interactions within OGP(July 2015)
  • Independent Review Mechanism (IRM) Reports

Atlas of Canada

1. 1906 National Atlas of Canada Maps (1st Edition)
   1. Telegraph Plates 10, 11, 12, 13, 45
   2. Telephone Plates 14, 15-16
   3. Lighthouses Plates 23, 24, 74
   4. Population Density 27-27A, 28-28A
   5. Railway Plates 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
   6. Explorers Plate 32
2. 1915 National Atlas of Canada Maps (2nd Edition)
   1. Telegraph Plates 31-32, 33-34, 35-36, 37-38
   2. Lighthouses Plates 49-50, 51-52, 53-54, 81
   3. Population Density Plates 27-28, 29-30
   4. Railway Plates 33-34, 41-42, 43-44, 45-46, 122
   5. Explorers Plate 57-58
3. 1957 National Atlas of Canada (3rd Edition)
   1. Television and Radio Plate 91
   2. Population Density Plate 48
   3. Distribution of the Population 46, 47
   4. Weather Stations Plate 32
   5. Geodetic Survey Plate 4
   6. Public Libraries, Museums and Art Galleries Plate 94
4. 1974 National Atlas of Canada (4th Edition)
   1. Communications 227-228, 229-230, 231-232
   2. Weather Stations 47
   3. Population Density 105-106, 107-108
   4. Railways and Canals 203-204, 205-206, 207-208
   5. Air Transportation 223-224, 225-226
   6. Ports and Harbours 209-210
   7. Exploration 73-74, 75-76, 77-78, 79-80
5. 1985 National Atlas of Canada (5th Edition)
   1. Telecommunications Systems
   2. Population Density
   3. Road Transportation Network
   4. Water Transportation Infrastructure
   5. Air Transportation Network
   6. Railway Transportation Network
   7. Exploration (1497-1650, 1651-1760)

Geomatics

Natural Resources Canada

• Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) Resource Centre

Relevant Websites

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Human Rights Documentation
  • Remote Sensing for Human Rights Project – Reports and Documents
• Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
  • Information on Satellites
• CODATA International Council for Science: Committee on Data for Science and Technology
• Data Science Institute
• Data Science Program Carleton University
• Institute for Data Science Carleton University
• Massachusetts Big Data Initiative
• Mass Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC)
• Open Cities Index (Public Sector Digest)
• Open Data Charter
  • Principles
• Privacy Analytics
• Research Data Alliance (RDA)
• Research Data Canada (RDC)