Contributors: Anonymous
Genre: Dataset Documentation
Type of Data Advocacy: Environment
Format: .pdf
Fall 2023
WRTG 3070: Advocating With Data
University of Colorado Boulder
Instructor: Prof. Nathan Pieplow
In keeping with the call for rich dataset documentation issued by Timnit Gebru et al. in "Datasheets for Datasets," this student sample provides not only technical documentation of an air quality dataset, but also a detailed data biography and an ethnographic assessment of the broader context to which this data collection effort belongs.
This student work was created in a Fall 2023 upper-division writing course called “Advocating with Data.” It was drafted in stages and workshopped with feedback from peers and the instructor. The assignment prompts can be found in the Toolkit:
Dataset Documentation Assignment Sequence
The dataset this document is analyzing can be found here: https://coepht.colorado.gov/air-quality-data