Rieder, B. (2020). Chapter 7: From Frequencies to Vectors. In Engines of Order. Amsterdam University Press.
Pablo Velasco // Information Studies // pablov.me
Work (e.g. https://dkuni.dk/uncategorized-da/universiteter-klar-med-model-for-flere-studerende-til-mindre-byer/)
Rendering France statistical required a transformed nation as well as statistical innovation
Reactivity (e.g. ghettolisten)
The aim of statistical work is to make a priori separate things hold together, thus, lending reality and consistency to larger, more complex objects (Desrosières 1998)
Discipline (e.g. GDP and global economy)
Seeing something is the first step to controlling it
Aesthetics
The most successful numerical pictures influence the ontology of what they represent. The picture becomes its own subject, replacing, in the comprehension of the observers, what it originally was intended merely to depict
"We cannot understand the basics terms of justice if we don't understand quantification"
Espeland, W. N., & Stevens, M. L. (2008). A Sociology of Quantification
Problem: which words to use to use as index terms? (Peter Luhn)
The first type relies on specifically human faculties while the second is the work not merely of a machine, but of a system that implements a particular technique or method to make the material 'speak'(206)
Rieder, B. (2020). Chapter 7: From Frequencies to Vectors. In Engines of Order. Amsterdam University Press.
Co-word analysis
Callon, M., Courtial, J.-P., Turner, W. A., & Bauin, S. (1983). From translations to problematic networks: An introduction to co-word analysis.
The computer produces an appreciation of the texts it parses that is not a simulation of human understanding but a different breed of cognition that enables different ordering practices (212)
Rieder, B. (2020). Chapter 7: From Frequencies to Vectors. In Engines of Order. Amsterdam University Press.