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Living in Data: A Citizen's Guide to a Better Information
Future
Sinopsis :
Jer Thorp&#8217analysis of the word &#8220daa&#8221in
10,325 New York Times stories written between 1984 and
2018 shows a distinct trend: among the words most closely
associated with &#8220daa,&#8221we find not only its classic
companions &#8220inormation&#8221and
&#8220diital,&#8221but also a variety of new
neighbors&#8213frm &#8220cadal&#8221and
&#8220miinformation&#8221to
&#8220etics,&#8221&#8220frends,&#8221and
&#8220ply.&#8221Tolive in data in the twenty-first century is
to be incessantly extracted from, classified and categorized,

statistic-ified, sold, and surveilled. Data&#8213ou
data&#8213ismined and processed for profit, power, and
political gain. In Living in Data, Thorp asks a crucial question
for our time: How do we stop passively inhabiting data, and
instead become active citizens of it?Threading a data story
through hippo attacks, glaciers, and school gymnasiums,
around colossal rice piles, and over active minefields, Jer
Thorp reminds us that the future of data is still wide open, that
there are ways to transcend facts and figures to engage more
viscerally with data, and that there are always new stories to
be told about how data can be used. Punctuated with
Thorp&#8217original and informative illustrations, Living in
Data not only redefines what data is, but also reimagines who
gets to speak its language and how to use its power to create
a more just and democratic future. Timely and inspiring, Living
in Data gives us a much-needed path forward.