[INVITATION] Data Feminism meets _The Turing Way_

[malvikasharan]

Summary

Data Feminism explores current practices within data science and asks us to recognise and act on the role that power plays throughout research processes, from data collection and storage to communication and visualisation. This power is itself reflective of much wider social injustices.

Over the last 9 weeks, the authors of Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein, have hosted reading groups that are attended by hundreds of individuals from all around the world. Through an active community engagement, “Data Feminism" has not only shed light on imbalanced power structures underlying data science but also started a timely discussion around research ethics.

The Turing Way is an open source collaboratively developed guide to reproducible, ethical and inclusive data science and in line with the mission of Data Feminism, aims to promote best practices in data science.

After the reading group finishes on 12 June 2020, we want to welcome and support interested participants, readers, and users of Data Feminism to contribute to The Turing Way.

Specifically, we invite contributions to build new chapters with recommendations, best practices, case studies, and impact stories inspired and shaped by Data Feminism in The Turing Way's Guide to Ethical Research.

What needs to be done by interested participants?

• Read the contribution guideline and Code of Conduct of The Turing Way
• Comment under this issue for any information that can be helpful for you to get involved
• Open an issue on this repository. Please choose a chapter or general template to start a chapter or discuss your ideas with the community respectively.

Who can help?

• Anyone who has the time and interest to promote Data Feminism practices in data science by contributing open source/access materials to The Turing Way

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Updates

• Malvika shared this issue link with the authors: https://bit.ly/DataFem-TuringWay
• Short description for the reading group is provided below

Background

• The Turing Way is an Open Source community-driven book-project in data science
• It involves and supports a diverse community of contributors to share their skills with a wider community
• We are developing guides on Reproducible Research, Project Design, Collaboration, Communication, and Ethical Research
• We invite recommendations, best practices, case studies, and impact stories inspired and shaped by Data Feminism in The Turing Way's Guide to Ethical Research.

Ways to get in touch:

• email: msharan@turing.ac.uk
• twitter: @turingway
• online (live) book: https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/
• updates: https://tinyletter.com/TuringWay/

[Ismael-KG]

Nice! I think it does!

[mi23]

Hello malviksharan!

[aleesteele]

Hi @malvikasharan, thank you for this PR! The work of data feminism is important, and for documentation's sake, I'm adding in some notes here about organisations that operate along similar values, and who also may be aligned with the work of Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein:

• https://geekfeminism.fandom.com/wiki/Geek_Feminism_Wiki
• https://openheroines.org/
• https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GeoChicas
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red
• https://hackblossom.org/
• https://www.chayn.co/
• https://numun.fund/
• https://cyberfeminismindex.com/

[aleesteele]

Adding some documentation from a conversation had with Marisa Miodosky of the Open Heroines team on 27 April 2022:
We spoke about what it would be like to involve open heroines to talk through some of these ideas of data feminism, and maybe develop either a 1) reading group to think through some of these principles within The Turing Way, and/or 2) contribute to TTW Data Ethics chapter using these principles. Will log future updates here!

Would love to get you involved @mi23 or @Ismael-KG, and get you in touch with Marisa to talk more about this idea!

[mi23]

Sounds exiting. Keep me posted.  Mirela On Tuesday, 10 May 2022, 11:44:18 BST, Anne Lee Steele ***@***.***> wrote: Adding some documentation from a conversation had with Marisa Miodosky of the Open Heroines team on 27 April 2022: We spoke about what it would be like to involve open heroines to talk through some of these ideas of data feminism, and maybe develop either a 1) reading group to think through some of these principles within The Turing Way, and/or 2) contribute to TTW Data Ethics chapter using these principles. Will log future updates here! — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[Karvovskaya]

I write it here so that I don't forget. For this section, I promised

• to translate this overview of our discussion "if open science is good for women" from Dutch to English

• Add as resource this article https://elifesciences.org/articles/83484 about supervisors being role models for sharing data

[MayaAndersonGonzalez]

Here's the summary work @gigikenneth and I did during Book Dash:
ttwbookdash_may23_datafeminism.md
The content is very much laced with my personal reflections and commentary that may need editing before making a formal PR 😄

[MayaAndersonGonzalez]

Got started on the landing page for a future chapter proposal here : https://hackmd.io/@MayaAndersonGonzaleez/r1mIRJRHh/edit

[EstherPlomp]

@MayaAndersonGonzalez: you may have already found this resource/seminar, but just linking it to be sure: https://www.turing.ac.uk/blog/challenging-power-data-science

[gigikenneth]

Waiting on Maya's draft for the landing page from May's Book Dash but working on it here in the meantime: Data Feminism Landing Page

[Arielle-Bennett]

Hi @gigikenneth - can I suggest that we look at getting the landing page at least into a PR? We can work on getting other concepts written up as sub-chapters subsequently, but the motivation and summary look good to me!

[gigikenneth]

[WIP] Introduction - https://hackmd.io/@gigikenneth/rJSOlnzEp/edit

[MayaAndersonGonzalez]

Thanks you @gigikenneth and sorry for the late reply! Putting this here for futur merging : https://hackmd.io/@MayaAndersonGonzalez/r1mIRJRHh/edit

[aleesteele]

Adding breadcrumbs here to #3417 with @gigikenneth, which was merged in the November 2023 bookdash!

[aleesteele]

Hi @gigikenneth and @MayaAndersonGonzalez - just wanted to ask you both if you'd be interested in getting involved with this again during the upcoming June Book Dash! Applications close in just a few weeks, we would absolutely love to see you there to work on these materials together ❤️

Here's the application form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdd7Zy6YUxPRpTmvd3yrtE9w7JCb9tA20NVQ-PmtGPsaRsqww/viewform

There's more information linked on these threads:

• https://twitter.com/turingway/status/1768693962628325788
• https://fosstodon.org/@turingway/112100941746791226
• https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7178328856330711040

[gigikenneth]

Hi @aleesteele ! Thank you so much, I'm looking forward to working on this again in the next Book Dash and I've already sent in my application!

[aleesteele]

Beautiful - so looking forward to seeing you again @gigikenneth! ❤️

[MayaAndersonGonzalez]

Hi @aleesteele and @gigikenneth 👋 Thank you for reaching out! I'd love to join and rekindle the data feminism flame during June bookdash 🔥 but my availability during weekday work hours is greatly reduced as I've recently started a new day job in a research library.
I'm wondering what the best way could be to keep moving forward with this... could there be an non-synchronistic longitudinal way of engaging with this chapter draft ?

[aleesteele]

Absolutely @MayaAndersonGonzalez! Would you be able to review some of the writing asynchronously throughout the week, or would it put a lot of pressure on your working day? Congratulations on the new role! What can we do to help @gigikenneth? I also flagged this issue to @giuliatomba, who might be interested in getting involved 😄

[gigikenneth]

Hi! @aleesteele , is @giuliatomba still interested in contributing to the chapter please?

And congratulations @MayaAndersonGonzalez ! Better late than never :)

[gigikenneth]

Chapter 1 draft: https://hackmd.io/@gigikenneth/By7b3so40

[giuliatomba]

Hello @gigikenneth! I haven't had the chance to have a look at the draft yet, but it would be great to have a chat... what times are you usually around at the Book Dash this week?

[gigikenneth]

Hi @giuliatomba! I'll be available during Session 4 today. How about you?

[giuliatomba]

@gigikenneth oh, I'm afraid I cannot make the evenings, I will be join during Session 2 thorughout the week :( I am actually working on another section now, but would be happy to help with your chapter even after the Book Dash in case - I'm not very familiar with data feminism, but would be keen to learn more! how could I best support you?

[mi23]

Is it too late to join?

[gigikenneth]

Hi @giuliatomba , that's no problem. I think we could collab async on the Slack channel.

@MayaAndersonGonzalez and I worked on a summary together which you'll find in this comment.

Support would look like turning the summaries into proper chapters for the book please 😁

[gigikenneth]

Hi @mi23 , it's not too late to join!

[mi23]

They have a new paper: Data Feminism for AI https://facctconference.org/static/papers24/facct24-7.pdf

[mi23]

When you have time/capacity, ping me the details of the next dash and what would be most useful from me.