How to Check Your Data Politics

Nicole Shephard
The Startup
Published in
7 min readJun 3, 2019

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We tend to be acutely aware of (problematic) data politics when thinking of large data-driven corporations like Facebook or Google, or of shady data brokers operating somewhere outside of our field of vision. But data science has become a common business practice for a far wider range of companies than a few select tech giants.

What Politics of What Data?

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Nicole Shephard
The Startup

Feminist researcher, writer & consultant | PhD LSE Gender | gender and technology | diversity and inclusion| intersectionality and data.