Embodying Data: Dr. Jacqueline Wernimont, Distinguished Chair of Digital Humanities and Social Engagement, Associate Chair of Film and Media Studies at Dartmouth College

For many 'data' are abstract notions and notations. In my work I ask 'what happens when we ground abstraction in the bodies from which we derive so much data? Can we perform, touch, maybe even taste data?' Dr. Wernimont  will walk through a range of possible ways to embody data and consider how embodied data might be something different from the flat or the abstract data we often think of when someone talks about data analytics and data science.
 
Event poster: hope.edu/DASposter
 
Data Analytics/Science Speakers Series
This is the first in a series of four events that will engage with data across the curriculum, research, and workplace. The series has been organized by the Data Analytics/Science initiative, which is working to develop a culture of data awareness at Hope College with plans for a future minor course of study. This effort takes a broad, liberal-arts-infused approach to data, concerned with data both qualitative and quantitative, big and small, as practiced across the disciplines (and Hope College divisions) of Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural and Applied Sciences. Special attention is paid to the ethics of data and the increasing place of data in our daily lives. 

This series and the Data Analytics/Science initiative is supported in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.