Data Feminism, Equity By Design

During this Meetup, the Chicago chapter of Women in Machine Learning & Data Science will discuss feminist data for a feminist future, taking inspirations from Catherine D’ignazio and her 2019 Eyeo talk “Feminist Data, Feminist Future.” Besides interesting, this topic is the focus of our event because “data is power, and that power is wielded unequally”[1] and we consider it our responsibility to expose & empower our community with ways to recognize, respond and preempt the misuse of this power.

Catherine D’Ignazio is a scholar, artist/designer and software developer who focuses on data literacy, feminist technology, and civic engagement. She has designed global news recommendation systems, run women’s health hackathons, created talking and tweeting water quality sculptures, and led walking data visualizations to envision the future of sea-level rise. Her art and design projects have won awards from the Tanne Foundation, Turbulence.org, and the Knight Foundation and exhibited at the Venice Biennial and the ICA Boston. Her research at the intersection of technology, design & the social change has been published in the Journal of Peer Production, the Journal of Community Informatics, and the proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM SIGCHI).

Join us for an evening of food, drinks, inspiration, and networking as we explore ethics and representation in data science together. All genders are warmly welcomed.

See D’lgnazio’s 2019 Eyeo presentation at https://vimeo.com/354276137

Oct 23, 2019 - 5:00 - 7:30 PM

5:00 PM - Doors open. Networking, Drinks, Eats

5:30 PM - Opening remarks followed by an excerpt from Catherine D’ignazio’s “Feminist Data, Feminist Future” and a group discussion.

Opening Remarks by Fra Valsecchi, IDEO Design Lead and Data Scientist.

6:15 PM - another excerpt from Catherine D’ignazio’s “Feminist Data, Feminist Future”, followed by a short workshop.

Each team will collaborate on addressing a design challenge of today’s world using learnings from the talk and discussions.

7:00 PM - Community discussion

7:30 PM - Close

Join us for an evening of food, drinks, inspiration, networking, and crayons!

About our sponsor & host:

IDEO is a design company known for its human-centered, interdisciplinary approach. As early leaders in the practice of design thinking, we create positive impact through design by applying our creative skills and mindsets, and by teaching others to do the same. We help clients and customers around the world build the capacity and outcomes required to navigate today’s complexity and lead their markets.

As a custom software development company, 8th Light (https://8thlight.com/) builds software—from mobile to microservices—that is beautiful, durable, and shows pride in workmanship. At 8th Light, software is our craft.

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[1] Catherine D’Ignazio & Lauren Klein, “Introduction” in Data Feminism, 2018