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Catherine D'Ignazio

Associate Professor of Urban Science & Planning, MIT
Catherine D’Ignazio is a scholar, artist/designer and hacker mama who focuses on feminist technology and data justice. D’Ignazio is faculty in the Dept of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She is also Director of the Data + Feminism Lab.
Boston, MAdataplusfeminism.mit.edu/0000-0002-8673-1941kanarinkakanarinkahttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yHJdpokAAAAJ
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About Us

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Oct 17, 2018
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Code of Conduct

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Oct 30, 2018
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Our Values and Our Metrics for Achieving Them

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Oct 30, 2018
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Acknowledgments

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Oct 20, 2018
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Chapter One: Bring Back the Bodies

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Nov 01, 2018
Why do data science and visualization need feminism? Because bodies are missing from the data we collect, from the decisions made about their analysis and display, and from the field of data science as a whole. Bringing back the bodies is how we can right this power imbalance.
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Chapter Two: On Rational, Scientific, Objective Viewpoints from Mythical, Imaginary, Impossible Standpoints

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Nov 01, 2018
Sociologist Patricia Hill Collins describes an ideal knowledge situation as one in which "neither ethics nor emotions are subordinated to reason." So why has emotion been so systematically excluded from data visualization? What happens when we bring back emotion and embodiment?
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Chapter Three: “What Gets Counted Counts”

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Nov 05, 2018
Feminists have spent a lot of time thinking about categories, since “male” and “female” are binary categories, and limited categories too. How we count matters as much as what we count. But we don't always count-- or account for-- what is most important to the questions at hand.
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Chapter Four: Unicorns, Janitors, Ninjas, Wizards, and Rock Stars

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Nov 05, 2018
Unicorns, wizards, ninjas, rock stars and janitors all have something in common: they all work alone. But what might be gained if we understood data work not as a solitary undertaking, but as one that embraced multiple voices and forms of expertise at all phases of the process?
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Chapter Five: The Numbers Don’t Speak for Themselves

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Nov 05, 2018
Do numbers ever speak for themselves? The short answer: no. The longer answer: no. In this chapter, we explain why context and theory matter deeply for the datasets that we employ in our work, the questions we ask about them, and the methods we use to arrive at our answers.
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Chapter Six: Show Your Work

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Nov 05, 2018
The products of data science are the work of many hands. Unfortunately, though, we tend not to credit the many hands who perform this work. Sometimes, it's because we can't see the people who performed it, but other times, it's because the work itself is invisible to the eye.
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Chapter Seven: The Power Chapter

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Nov 01, 2018
Examining how power is wielded through data means participating in projects that wield it back. The projects we discuss in this chapter deal openly and explicitly with questions about power, and name the structural forces like sexism and racism that lead to power imbalances.
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Chapter Eight: Teach Data Like an Intersectional Feminist!

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Nov 05, 2018
Much of current data science education functions as a "Man Factory", focused on reproducing data work that is abstract, individual, & led by elite men. But what if we imagined teaching data as a place to start creating the connected, collective, caring world that we want to see?
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Conclusion: Now Let’s Multiply

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Nov 05, 2018
A feminist approach to data science, to visualization, or to anything else in the world, cannot account for all perspectives on inequality. Here we point to some additional bodies of work that can help inform our understanding, action and activism around power and data.
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Introduction

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Nov 06, 2018
Intersectional feminism isn't just about women nor even just about gender. Feminism is about power – who has it and who doesn’t. And in a world in which data is power, and that power is wielded unequally, data feminism can help us understand how it can be challenged and changed.
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Who Collects the Data? A Tale of Three Maps

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
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Published: Feb 05, 2021
Who makes maps and who gets mapped? Using a comparative reading of three maps, this case study introduces the idea that data may be useful, but they are not neutral. Rather, they represent the interests and goals of the groups and institutions that are doing the data ...
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Integrating pluralism

by Catherine D'Ignazio, Lauren Klein, and Sarah Gulliford (Kearns)
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Published: Oct 04, 2021
🎧 The authors of Data Feminism reunite to discuss the joys and benefits of community review.
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CHAPTER 2: Introduction to Data Feminism

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Sep 12, 2021
Many of the techniques used by Artificial Intelligence systems - from official statistics to health records to online metadata to sensors and satellites - rely on training via vast quantities of data.
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Introducción: por qué la ciencia de datos necesita feminismo

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Apr 23, 2023
DataGénero (Coordinación: Mailén García. Traductoras: Ivana Feldfeber,Sofía García, Gina Ballaben, Giselle Arena y Mariángela Petrizzo. Revisión: Helena Suárez Val.Con la ayuda de Diana Duarte Salinas, Ana Amelia Letelier, y Patricia Maria Garcia Iruegas)
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Introduction: Why Data Science Needs Feminism
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4 : : "Lo que se cuenta, cuenta"

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Apr 23, 2023
DataGénero (Coordinación: Mailén García. Traductoras: Ivana Feldfeber,Sofía García, Gina Ballaben y Mariángela Petrizzo. Revisión: Helena Suárez Val. Con la ayuda deDiana Duarte Salinas, Ana Amelia Letelier, y Patricia Maria Garcia Iruegas)
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4. “What Gets Counted Counts”
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1 : : El Capítulo del Poder

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Apr 23, 2023
DataGénero (Coordinación: Mailén García. Traductoras: Ivana Feldfeber,Sofía García, Gina Ballaben, Giselle Arena y Mariángela Petrizzo. Revisión: Helena Suárez Val.Con la ayuda de Diana Duarte Salinas, Ana Amelia Letelier, y Patricia Maria Garcia Iruegas)
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1. The Power Chapter
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Statement on Sharing Power

by Catherine D'Ignazio
Published: Nov 02, 2022
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Bibliography

by Catherine D'Ignazio
Published: Nov 02, 2022
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Introduction

by Catherine D'Ignazio
Published: Nov 02, 2022
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Chapter 1 – A Short Genealogy of Feminicide and Data Activism

by Catherine D'Ignazio
Published: Nov 02, 2022
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Chapter 2 – Official Data, Missing Data, Counterdata

by Catherine D'Ignazio
Published: Nov 02, 2022
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Chapter 3 - Resolving

by Catherine D'Ignazio
Published: Nov 02, 2022
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Chapter 4 — Researching

by Catherine D'Ignazio
Published: Nov 02, 2022
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Chapter 5 – Recording

by Catherine D'Ignazio
Published: Nov 02, 2022
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Chapter 6 – Refusing and Using Data

by Catherine D'Ignazio
Published: Nov 02, 2022
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Chapter 7 – Co-Designing for Counterdata Science

by Catherine D'Ignazio
Published: Nov 02, 2022
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Chapter 8 – A Toolkit for Counterdata Science

by Catherine D'Ignazio
Published: Nov 02, 2022
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Appendix 1 - Feminicide Data Activists interviewed for this book

by Catherine D'Ignazio
Published: Nov 02, 2022
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Conclusion: Putting Counterdata Science in its Place

by Catherine D'Ignazio
Published: Nov 02, 2022
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3 : : Sobre puntos de vista racionales, científicos y objetivos desde puntos de vista míticos, imaginarios e imposibles

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Apr 23, 2023
DataGénero (Coordinación: Mailén García. Traductoras: Mailén García. Revisión: Helena Suárez Val. Con la ayuda de Diana Duarte Salinas, Ana Amelia Letelier, y Patricia Maria Garcia Iruegas)
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3. On Rational, Scientific, Objective Viewpoints from Mythical, Imaginary, Impossible Standpoints
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5 : : Unicornios, conserjes, ninjas, magos y estrellas de rock

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Apr 23, 2023
DataGénero (Coordinación: Mailén García. Traductoras: Mailén García. Revisión: Helena Suárez Val. Con la ayuda de Diana Duarte Salinas, Ana Amelia Letelier, y Patricia Maria Garcia Iruegas)
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5. Unicorns, Janitors, Ninjas, Wizards, and Rock Stars
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2 : : Recopilar, analizar, imaginar, enseñar

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Apr 23, 2023
DataGénero (Coordinación: Mailén García. Traductoras: Mailén García.Revisión: Helena Suárez Val. Con la ayuda de Diana Duarte Salinas, Ana Amelia Letelier, yPatricia Maria Garcia Iruegas)
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2. Collect, Analyze, Imagine, Teach
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6 : : Los Números No Hablan por sí mismos

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Apr 23, 2023
DataGénero (Coordinación: Mailén García. Traductoras: Sofía García. Revisión: Helena Suárez Val y Mailén García. Con la ayuda de Diana Duarte Salinas, Ana Amelia Letelier, y Patricia Maria Garcia Iruegas)
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6. The Numbers Don’t Speak for Themselves
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7 : : Muestra tu trabajo

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Apr 23, 2023
DataGénero (Coordinación: Mailén García. Traductoras: Gina Ballaben. Revisión: Helena Suárez Val y Mailén García. Con la ayuda de Diana Duarte Salinas, Ana AmeliaLetelier, y Patricia Maria Garcia Iruegas)
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7. Show Your Work
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Conclusión: ahora, multipliquemos

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Apr 23, 2023
DataGénero (Coordinación: Mailén García. Traductoras: Gina Ballaben. Revisión: Helena Suárez Val y Mailén García. Con la ayuda de Diana Duarte Salinas, Ana Amelia Letelier, y Patricia Maria Garcia Iruegas)
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Conclusion: Now Let’s Multiply
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Nuestros valores y nuestras métricas para hacernos responsables

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Apr 23, 2023
DataGénero (Coordinación: Mailén García. Traductoras: Sofía García. Revisión: Helena Suárez Val y Mailén García. Con la ayuda de Diana Duarte Salinas, Ana Amelia Letelier, y Patricia Maria Garcia Iruegas)
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Our Values and Our Metrics for Holding Ourselves Accountable
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Reconocimiento a organizaciones comunitarias

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Apr 23, 2023
DataGénero (Coordinación: Mailén García. Traductoras: SofíaGarcía. Revisión: Helena Suárez Val y Mailén García. Con la ayuda de Diana Duarte Salinas, Ana Amelia Letelier, y Patricia Maria Garcia Iruegas)
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Acknowledgment of Community Organizations
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Auditando Data Feminism, por Isabel Carter

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Apr 23, 2023
DataGénero (Coordinación: Mailén García. Traductoras: Sofía García. Revisión: Helena Suárez Val y Mailén García. Con la ayuda de Diana Duarte Salinas, Ana Amelia Letelier, y Patricia Maria Garcia Iruegas)
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Auditing Data Feminism, by Isabel Carter
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Counting Feminicide – Extended Bibliography

by Catherine D'Ignazio
Published: May 27, 2023
This is the extended bibliography for Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action by Catherine D'Ignazio, MIT Press, 2024. It comprises all of the resources I reviewed for the research and writing of the book and I offer them here in the hopes they will be useful to others.
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A Toolkit for Restorative/Transformative Data Science

by Catherine D'Ignazio
Published: Aug 05, 2023
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۵. تک‌شاخ‌ها، سرایدارها، نینجاها، جادوگران، و ستاره‌های راک

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Mar 07, 2024
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۶. اعداد خود صحبت نمی‌کنند

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Mar 07, 2024
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۷. کار خود را به اشتراک بگذارید

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Mar 07, 2024
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نتیجه‌گیری: بیایید تکثیر شویم

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Mar 07, 2024
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ارزش‌ها و معیارهای ما برای پاسخ‌گو نگه‌داشتن ما

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Mar 07, 2024
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۱. فصل قدرت

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Mar 07, 2024
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۲. جمع‌آوری، تحلیل، تصور، آموزش

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Mar 07, 2024
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۳. در مورد نگرش‌های عقلانی، علمی، و عینی در مقابل دیدگاه‌های اسطوره‌ای، خیالی، و غیرممکن

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Mar 07, 2024
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۴. آن چیزی که شمارش می‌شود، اهمیت پیدا دارد

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Mar 07, 2024
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مقدمه: چرا علم داده به فمینیسم احتیاج دارد

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Mar 07, 2024
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قدردانی

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Mar 07, 2024
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بررسی فمینیسم داده، توسط ایزابل کارتر

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Mar 07, 2024
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تقدیر از سازمان‌های اجتماعی

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Mar 07, 2024
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اعتبار عکس‌ها

by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Published: Mar 07, 2024
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