Data Lives: How Data Are Made and Shape Our World

CONTENTS
PART I Introduction
1 Data Stories : Telling Stories, Data Lives

PART II The Life of Data
2 Blind Data
3 The Nature of Data
4 Gridlock
5 In Data We Trust
6 How to Lose (and Regain) 3.6 Billion Euros
7 Harmonizing Data is Hard
8 Open-and-Shut Case
9 The Politics of Building Civic Tech
10 So More Trumps Better?
11 Hustling for Funding
12 The Secret Science of Formulas
13 The End of the Data Lifecycle

PART III Living with Data
14 Traces and Shadows
15 Recommended Life
16 The Quantified Self
17 Fighting Fires
18 Management Through Metrics
19 Guinea Pigs
20 Big Brother is Watching and Controlling You
21 Security Theatre
22 When a Country Ignores Its Own Data
23 Data Theft
24 Data for the People, by the People
25 Black Data Matter

PART IV Conclusion
26 A Matter of Life and Death
27 Data Futures
Notes
Index