Data Remediations

In this episode, hosts Patricia Kim and Bethany Wiggin talk to Daniel Castro, Daniel Aldana Cohen and Christine Knapp about concepts like “data poverty,” and what cities are doing to gather emissions data—and how we can improve. Also, we welcome our new Public Research Interns, Grace Boroughs and Katie Collier, who remind us to “Love Your Data.”

Zachary Dean Norman, Endangered Data (2017). Trinidad Head, California measurement station. 100% the pixels in this image have been used to store data.

CREDITS

Image: Zachary Dean Norman, Endangered Data (2017)

Daniel Castro is the director of the Center for Data Innovation and vice president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Tweet Daniel @castrotech.

Daniel Aldana Cohen is a political sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania who works on the intersection of climate change, inequality, the built environment, and carbon accounting. Tweet Daniel @aldatweets.

Christine Knapp is the Executive Director for the Philadelphia Office of Sustainability (OOS). Tweet Christine @christinemknapp.

This episode was produced by Jasmine Erdener.

MUSIC

“Dreamy” by J Dilla (intro)

Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead (Original)

Brian Eno and David Byrne - The Jezebel Spirit

Cymande - Dove

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts - Regiment

Os Tincoãs - Deixa A Gira Girar (j g b edit)

Nano Stern - Sonqollay

Nano Stern - Carnavalito del Ciempies

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In this episode, hosts Patricia Kim and Bethany Wiggin introduce Data Remediations, a podcast connecting data with people and places through stories and art. Interviews with Eric Holthaus, Michael Halpern, Denice Ross, Margaret Janz, Tad Schurr, and the Environmental Performance Agency further contextualize the origins of Data Refuge and its storytelling project.

Image: Environmental Performance Agency.

Eric Holthaus is a meteorologist and climate writer at Grist.

Michael Halpern is deputy director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists. 

Denice W. Ross is the data strategy lead for New America’s Phase Zero Project. She specializes in data transparency and civic engagement, with a focus on action at the local level.

Margaret Janz is the Scholarly Communications and Data Curation Librarian at Penn Libraries. She coordinates support for research data management and planning and was a key member of the Data Refuge project's first phase.

Tad Schurr is Professor in the Department of Anthropology, and a Consulting Curator in the Physical Anthropology and American Sections of the Penn Museum.  He directs the North American Regional Center of the Genographic Project, and Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology at Penn.

Environmental Performance Agency is an artist collective founded in 2017 and named in response to the proposed defunding of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Current EPA agents include Catherine Grau, andrea haenggi, Ellie Irons, Christopher Kennedy, and the spontaneous urban plants of 1067 Pacific Street, Brooklyn.

This episode was produced by Aaron Shapiro.

MUSIC

“Dreamy” by J Dilla (intro)

“Weight off” by Kaytranada

“Intro (It’s Album Time)” by Todd Terje 

“Stargazer” by Thievery Corporation

“Nar Djenetbouba” by Tinariwen

“Nespole” by Floating Points

“Moma” by Fourtet

“El Camino Negro” by Tommy Guerrero

“Heat in the Streets” by Tommy Guerrero (outtro) 

FEEDBACK

Comments? Suggestions? We’d love to hear from you! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DataRefuge, or send us a note to [email protected].