{"id":1226,"date":"2017-10-19T09:54:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T09:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2017-10-04T20:04:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T20:04:39","slug":"humans-of-data-022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/19\/humans-of-data-022\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans of Data 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_4102-colour-size.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1227\" src=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_4102-colour-size.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_4102-colour-size.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_4102-colour-size-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_4102-colour-size-624x416.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my previous life as an academic, I always liked interdisciplinary work: to come at things from a slightly sideways perspective. But in this area, I get to encounter more than most people do &#8211; collections, ideas, researchers, people, stories \u2026 I get to discover everything from every different area of knowledge, from lots of different perspectives.\u00a0 The data itself is obviously really interesting but it\u2019s what goes into the creation of that data, and what people then do with that data \u2013 that\u2019s what\u2019s really fascinating to me.<\/p>\n<p>When people ask me, \u2018What do you do?\u2019, I\u2019m still not sure how best to describe it.\u00a0 Whenever someone asks, I give a different answer, but it doesn\u2019t actually capture what the day-to-day work is about, which is the exchange of social and cultural knowledge.\u00a0 I think that\u2019s the most appealing thing to me.\u00a0 There\u2019s always something new to find out about, and this central thing that we call \u2018data\u2019 is a conduit into discovery of all kinds of stories and narratives.\u00a0 It\u2019s a window into lots of different worlds.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In my previous life as an academic, I always liked interdisciplinary work: to come at things from a slightly sideways perspective. But in this area, I get to encounter more than most people do &#8211; collections, ideas, researchers, people, stories \u2026 I get to discover everything from every different area of knowledge, from lots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humans-of-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}