Day Nine: Classification

SDS 237: Data Ethnography

Lindsay Poirier

Identify a classification system that structures some aspect of your “work”. How are concepts organized in this classification system?

Turn to your neighbor and discuss:

• What is the master narrative running through this classification system?

Datasets that rely on the ICD

• Navigate to data.gov and search for “ICD”
• How do these datasets rely on the ICD?

Infrastructural Analysis

Mini-Project 1

• Due March 10 (in 2 weeks)
• Choice between a discourse analysis or a cultural analysis of infrastructure
• Both involve practicing the methods we have discussed in class
• Both involve producing an argument from ethnographic evidence
• Argument should be descriptive, not of value or policy
• Video describing both projects in depth will be available on Perusall