The Data to Action (DATA) Lab is an interdisciplinary team of faculty and student researchers who study the impact of data practices and labor in a variety of contexts. Data are empowering artifacts that, when properly collected, aggregated, managed, and analyzed, have immense value. Data can bring tangible reward to individuals, communities, organizations, and businesses. Our work characterizes data not only as a statistical input or technological byproduct, but as a socio-technical construction with inherent contradictions, problems, and ethical implications.

Lab news:

• Ayoung Yoon's work on cultural preservation was featured in a new digital humanities research methods book [more]
• We're very excited to have Prof. Tanya Berger-Wolf as a speaker at the inaugural IUPUI Data to Action Speaker Series.
• Four incoming students join the DATA lab
• Francesco Cafaro received an NSF EAGER grant to research embodied interaction techniques for learning causation and correlation [more]
• Kyle Jones receives IMLS grant to research learning analytics and privacy [more]
• Khairi Reda received an NSF CRII grant to research new visualization methods for model- and hypothesis-based reasoning with data [more]
• Ayoung Yoon receives two new IMLS grants to assess library capacity and to study data reuse for local communities [more]