R. Stuart Geiger

BIDS Alum – Ethnographer

Real name: 
R. Stuart Geiger

Former BIDS Ethnographer Stuart Geiger is now a faculty member at the University of California, San Diego, jointly appointed in the Department of Communication and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute. At BIDS, as an ethnographer of science and technology, he studied the infrastructures and institutions that support the production of knowledge. He launched the Best Practices in Data Science discussion group in 2019, having been one of the original members of the MSDSE Data Science Studies Working Group. Previously, his work on Wikipedia focused on the community of volunteer editors who produce and maintain an open encyclopedia. He also studied distributed scientific research networks and projects, including the Long-Term Ecological Research Network and the Open Science Grid. In Wikipedia and scientific research, he studied topics including newcomer socialization, community governance, specialization and professionalization, quality control and verification, cooperation and conflict, the roles of support staff and technicians, and diversity and inclusion. And, as these communities are made possible through software systems, he studied how the design of software tools and systems intersect with all of these issues.  He received an undergraduate degree at UT Austin, and an MA in Communication, Culture, and Technology at Georgetown University, where he began empirically studying communities using qualitative and ethnographic methods.  As part of receiving his PhD from the UC Berkeley School of Information, he worked with anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, historians, organizational and management scholars, designers, and computer scientists. 

Projects

Berkeley Carpentries Club Banner Logo

Berkeley Carpentries Club

Status: Archived
Visible and Invisible Work of Maintaining Open Source Software - project page banner

The Visible and Invisible Work of Maintaining Open Source Software

Status: Archived
Garbage In, Garbage Out - project page banner

Garbage In, Garbage Out? Do Machine Learning Research Papers Report Where Training Data Comes From?

Status: Archived


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August 16, 2018 / 2:00pm to 3:00pm

June 13, 2018 / 9:00am to June 14, 2018 / 5:00pm

March 16, 2018 / 2:00pm to 3:00pm

February 7, 2018 / 5:00pm to 6:30pm

November 1, 2017 / 7:00pm to 8:30pm

October 11, 2017 / 4:00pm to 5:30pm

September 13, 2017 / 4:00pm to 5:30pm

September 3, 2016 / 4:00pm to 6:00pm

February 17, 2016 / 4:00pm to 5:30pm

January 16, 2016 / 9:00am to 9:45am

November 6, 2015 / 2:00pm to 3:00pm

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