JD Pirtle
@jdpirtle.bsky.social
Artist, educator, and researcher - currently: Electronic Visualization Lab @ UIC.
PhD student in Education Policy Studies @ UIC: critical pedagogy, maker ed, art, technology, and politics.
jdpirtle.com
PhD student in Education Policy Studies @ UIC: critical pedagogy, maker ed, art, technology, and politics.
jdpirtle.com
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the cook county sheriff's and state's attorney's offices will look to hire dozens of analysts in 2026.
new ccso and sao departments are tasked with using data to streamline internal operations, generate "predictive" analytics, and even steer the strategy for prosecuting gun crimes.
background:
new ccso and sao departments are tasked with using data to streamline internal operations, generate "predictive" analytics, and even steer the strategy for prosecuting gun crimes.
background:
Cook County’s web of surveillance for electronic monitoring
Sheriff Tom Dart worked with the University of Chicago’s Steven Levitt to create a program that could “match” people on EM to reported crimes.
chicagoreader.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
the cook county sheriff's and state's attorney's offices will look to hire dozens of analysts in 2026.
new ccso and sao departments are tasked with using data to streamline internal operations, generate "predictive" analytics, and even steer the strategy for prosecuting gun crimes.
background:
new ccso and sao departments are tasked with using data to streamline internal operations, generate "predictive" analytics, and even steer the strategy for prosecuting gun crimes.
background:
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My aim with DWI was to develop a research process in which data workers could shape research agendas, interpretive frameworks, and conceptual categories.
The challenge was how to do this methodologically, beyond extractive social science conventions.
data-workers.org/about/how-to...
The challenge was how to do this methodologically, beyond extractive social science conventions.
data-workers.org/about/how-to...
How We Made Data Workers' Inquiry, by Milagros Miceli
This piece traces how Data Workers‘ Inquiry came to life: not as a project with clear answers, but as a messy, stubborn attempt to put research in the hands of the people living the realities research...
data-workers.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
My aim with DWI was to develop a research process in which data workers could shape research agendas, interpretive frameworks, and conceptual categories.
The challenge was how to do this methodologically, beyond extractive social science conventions.
data-workers.org/about/how-to...
The challenge was how to do this methodologically, beyond extractive social science conventions.
data-workers.org/about/how-to...
Reposted by JD Pirtle
Who invests in critical thinking and who invests in an AI chatbot to help you think will be really telling.
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Who invests in critical thinking and who invests in an AI chatbot to help you think will be really telling.