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PhD Candidate in History of Science at Stanford focusing on Darwin and evolutionary biology. Also works in philosophy of biology and philosophy of history
Nov 3, 2018 7 tweets 4 min read
Next, Alisa Bokulich on the model-ladenness of data. Starts with Paul Edwards idea of model-data symbiosis, particularly the idea that data is model-filtered. Focus on geosciences. #hss18 #psa2018 A taxonomy of the model-ladenness of data. 1. Data conversion: Measured quantity is a proxy for phenomenon of interest. 2. Data correction: data gathered in field needs to be cleaned of noise or confounding factors to yield signal. #hss18 #psa2018