Tactical Tech's guide: "Decoding Data"

[Murray Hunter]

Hello everyone,

For those who are interested, Tactical Tech in Berlin just released a guide on "Decoding Data": https://exposingtheinvisible.org/guides/decoding-data/

I've only had the briefest glimpse, but generally Tactical Tech comes up with some pretty interesting reference material for the pedestrian user like me. From the intro:

"Decoding Data is the first in a series of Guides that Exposing the Invisible will bring out in 2016. This one, like those coming, is based on materials that we produced while working on Exposing the Invisible along with new material we commissioned. Decoding Data should give the reader a good sense of work in progress, we don’t want to claim any uniqueness or any significance of the presented material - but it is solid selections of topics, approaches and ideas - a great companion for those who are thinking of getting better at working with data and see how others struggled before them. For us, taking up on the entire series was sort of an internal call - here we are siting on so much great content, that if only it was given a different structure and little bit of new content here and there it could be a decent contribution to what everyone else is doing - trying to improve the way we work with data, images, sound and respect for our sources and contributors.

So yes, this guide is not comprehensive but is very condensed, and yes it might come across like a mixture of styles and organisational principles - but we don't know anyone who reads guides from A to Z (except we actually do) in a format that should not take you long to find your own way through it to get to places that are of most interest to you. 

What’s different about this Guide, yet another guide about data? In one sentence we would say - it focuses on the efficacy of data when there are some possibilities and we definitely do not fetishize its power"

Keep reading at: https://exposingtheinvisible.org/guides/decoding-data/

[Raymond Joseph]

Sorry for the spam. That last  mail was for Murray not the whole group. Ray

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