The concept of the "future of work", though widely-referenced in mainstream media and policy discourse, remains...
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Fluidity and Friction: An Experiment in Ethnographic Foresight
Ethnography can be a divining rod for the future. Though speculative, the study of cultural signals to seed...
Seeing the World at Scale and in Depth: A Journey with Big and Thick Data
When I was studying economics at university one of our professors introduced us to Jorge Luis Borges’s “On Exactitude in Science”, a one-paragraph story. It imagines an empire so enthralled by cartography that larger and larger maps of the place are built by successive generations until a map on...
One Small Step for Ethnography, One Giant Leap for Banking and Insurance
PechaKucha Presentation—In this presentation we argue that in many regulated industries such as banking, finance, and insurance, a post qualitative vs. quantitative world is not yet a reality. In such an environment, advanced analytics could be likened to being in its teenage years, while...
Physicalizations of Big Data in Ethnographic Context
With the Big Data hype, making digital data accessible and relatable for non-data experts is becoming an increasing challenge. In this paper we suggest Data Physicalization as a novel approach to facilitate conversations with collaborators about the meaning of data. While this challenge has been...