Author: Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication Year: 2020
Summary: The following book chapter considers how within data science, practitioners are used to seeing the world in 1s and 0s – in fact, models try to predict which observations will be 1s, and which will be 0s. But this article emphasizes the notion that binaries and hierarchies, and other common classification infrastructures are used as tools of power that can exclude specific communities, but they don’t have to be.