CV

Education

• B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012
• M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
• Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)

Work experience

• Summer 2015: Research Assistant
  • Github University
  • Duties included: Tagging issues
  • Supervisor: Professor Git
• Fall 2015: Research Assistant
  • Github University
  • Duties included: Merging pull requests
  • Supervisor: Professor Hub

Skills

• Skill 1
• Skill 2
  • Sub-skill 2.1
  • Sub-skill 2.2
  • Sub-skill 2.3
• Skill 3

Publications

Pushback: Critical Data Designers and Pollution Politics

Kim Fortun, Lindsay Poirier, Alli Morgan, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, Mike Fortun. 2016. "Pushback: Critical Data Designers and Pollution Politics." Big Data & Society 3(2), 2053951716668903. SAGE Publications Ltd.

Devious Design: Digital Infrastructure Challenges for Experimental Ethnography

Lindsay Poirier. 2017. "Devious Design: Digital Infrastructure Challenges for Experimental Ethnography." Design Issues 33(2), 70--83.

Mapping Organized Ignorance in Environmental Health

Laura Rabinow, Lindsay Poirier. 2017. "Mapping Organized Ignorance in Environmental Health." XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students 23(3), 16--19.

A Turn for the Scruffy: An Ethnographic Study of Semantic Web Architecture

Lindsay Poirier. 2017. "A Turn for the Scruffy: An Ethnographic Study of Semantic Web Architecture." In WebSci '17. ACM.

Making the Web Meaningful: A History of Web Semantics

Lindsay Poirier. 2019. "Making the Web Meaningful: A History of Web Semantics." In The SAGE Handbook of Web History, edited by N. Br\"ugger, I. Milligan, 256--269. SAGE Publications.

Metadata, Digital Infrastructure, and the Data Ideologies of Cultural Anthropology

Lindsay Poirier, Kim Fortun, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, Mike Fortun. 2019. "Metadata, Digital Infrastructure, and the Data Ideologies of Cultural Anthropology." In Anthropological Data in the Digital Age: New Possibilities-New Challenges, edited by Jerome Crowder, Mike Fortun, Rachel Besara, Lindsay Poirier. Palgrave Macillan.

Classification as Catachresis: Double Binds of Representing Difference with Semiotic Infrastructure

Lindsay Poirier. 2019. "Classification as Catachresis: Double Binds of Representing Difference with Semiotic Infrastructure." Canadian Journal of Communication 44(3).

Data Sharing at Scale: A Heuristic for Affirming Data Cultures

Lindsay Poirier, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn. 2019. "Data Sharing at Scale: A Heuristic for Affirming Data Cultures." Data Science Journal 18(1), 48.

Anthropological Data in the Digital Age: New Possibilities - New Challenges

Jerome Crowder, Mike Fortun, Rachel Besara, Lindsay Poirier. 2020. Anthropological Data in the Digital Age: New Possibilities textendash New Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan.

Ethnographies of Datasets: Teaching Critical Data Analysis through R Notebooks

Lindsay Poirier. 2020. "Ethnographies of Datasets: Teaching Critical Data Analysis through R Notebooks." The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy(18).

Data(-)Based Ambivalence Regarding NYC 311 Data Infrastructure

Lindsay Poirier. 2021. "Data(-)Based Ambivalence Regarding NYC 311 Data Infrastructure." Cultural Studies 0(0), 1--28. Routledge.

Moving Ethnography: Infrastructuring Doubletakes and Switchbacks in Experimental Collaborative Methods

Aalok Khandekar, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, Lindsay Poirier, Alli Morgan, Alison Kenner, Kim Fortun, Mike Fortun, The Team. 2021. "Moving Ethnography: Infrastructuring Doubletakes and Switchbacks in Experimental Collaborative Methods." Science & Technology Studies 34(3).

Reading Datasets: Strategies for Interpreting the Politics of Data Signification

Lindsay Poirier. 2021. "Reading Datasets: Strategies for Interpreting the Politics of Data Signification." Big Data & Society 8(2), 20539517211029322. SAGE Publications Ltd.

Data, Knowledge Practices, and Naturecultural Worlds: Vehicle Emissions in the Anthropocene

Lindsay Poirier. 2022. "Data, Knowledge Practices, and Naturecultural Worlds: Vehicle Emissions in the Anthropocene." In The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology, edited by Maja Bruun, Ayo Wahlberg, Rachel Douglas-Jones, Cathrine Hasse, Klaus Hoeyer, Dorthe Kristensen, Brit Winthereik, 273--290. Springer.

Accountable Data: The Politics and Pragmatics of Disclosure Datasets

Lindsay Poirier. 2022. "Accountable Data: The Politics and Pragmatics of Disclosure Datasets." In 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 1446--1456. Association for Computing Machinery.

Talks

Critiquing (t)reason in knowledge representation: historical perspectives on semantic data infrastructure

April 10, 2019

Talk at Data Then and Now Seminar: University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Data Analytics in the Real World: Opportunities, Challenges, and Risks

April 24, 2019

Talk at UC Davis Future of Work Series, Davis, CA

What Counts? Narrating the Backstories of Open Datasets

March 07, 2022

Tutorial at NYC School of Data 2022, New York, NY

Accountable Datasets: The Politics and Pragmatics of Disclosure Datasets

June 21, 2022

Conference proceedings talk at FAccT '22, Virtual

Teaching

Data and Social Justice

Data Ethnography

Introduction to Data Science

Service and leadership

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