Researchers as Curators

This is Part of the Data Stories Series

A special thank you to Kenneth D. Bailey’s work on typologies and taxonomies, for having inspired this Data Story.

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What really mattered, in that data? Was it their demographic profile? Was it their job? The fact they were on good terms with their family, had a dog, or had just moved to a rural area? What was truly meaningful amongst those many details?

We researchers often are asked to typify the customer, the patient, the citizen — whatever our dataset seeks to follow.