Dr. Alison Cool

Assistant Professor University of Colorado

Keynote Address

2024 Admitted Graduate Student Open House

This presentation looks at what data is, what it is worth, and what it is about for the people who work intimately with it. Based on ethnographic research with scientists and data managers in Sweden, I examine how legal and technical distinctions between personal and other “kinds” of data are unsettled in contingent, social processes of putting data to work.