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Julian Posada
Assistant Professor of American Studies
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What do you do with Data Science?
As someone initially trained in the humanities and the social sciences, I explored data science through computational social science initiatives that bring computational methods to social research, notably in studies that involve data collected online. Later, I started investigating data on its own from a social perspective. My work focuses on producing data for machine learning, particularly processes of data generation, annotation, and algorithmic verification that are outsourced through crowdsourcing platforms. I used data science methods to study platforms at a global scale by analyzing online data. This work blends the boundaries between humanistic, social, and computational research, and, in the long term, I want to contribute to these multidisciplinary dialogues. I believe that, in a datafied world, humanistic disciplines need computational insights and vice versa.