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Very interesting ideas, John. I will look for a time to read this essay... Thanks Juan C. Correa https://sites.google.com/site/jcorrean/Home On 23/03/17 09:03, Boy, John wrote: > This essay provides some useful concepts for the discussions we've been having: > > http://distill.pub/2017/research-debt/ > > In particular, it takes up the concept of "interpretive labor" from the anthropologist David Graeber and proposes that we think of a lack of this kind of labor in the context of scholarly work as "research debt." > > As I understand it, Distill is a new publication that tries to catch up on some much needed interpretive labor in machine learning, but I can see applications for the term in other areas, such as computational social science, as well. > > For instance, we might ask questions like: Where do we see research debt building up in our field? Is programming a "high interest credit card" of research debt in the social sciences, to borrow a formulation from Sculley et al. (https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43146.html)? > > I hesitate to single out one particular field or area of research as being particularly research debt-laden, but I thought this might be a stimulating idea to share with the list. > > I look forward to your thoughts, > John