Maps, world-views and neutrality: squaring the circle?
Map-making is a serious business. There’s a science devoted to that, and only highly specialised companies and organisations can endeavour to translate every feature on Earth into …
Carlos Cámara-Menoyo
Principal Research Software Engineer
I am an interdisciplinary researcher whose research articulates around how physical and digital infrastructures, especially those that are commonly produced, respond to and are shaped by societal challenges. I’ve worked as an architect, drupal developer, project manager, lecturer, data scientist, and currently as Principal Research Software Engineer.
My research interests revolve around the social aspect of technology and methods to surface the world-views that are invariably embedded in technical artefacts such as cities, software or platforms. To do so, I use mixed methods with a preference for digital methods, participatory methods and data visualisation and a keen interest in EDI and open research best practices to make research Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable
Co-designing participatory data visualizations to evaluate OpenStreetMap’s equity: The Good, The Neutral and The Ugly
This talk will present the implementation of a participatory codesign process to surface how neutrality is operationalised in OpenStreetMap [OSM] as well as some preliminary …
Can Digital Goods be Neutral? Evaluating OpenStreetMap’s equity through participatory data visualisation
This research project promotes digital equity by empowering members from under-represented communities to co-produce data visualisations and tools that examine and challenge the …
Digital tools for knowledge exchange and sustainable public food procurement in community kindergartens: A case study in Słupsk, Poland
This article presents a case study on the experimental co-creation process of a digital platform supporting Sustainable Public Food Procurement (SPFP) in public kindergartens in …
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Co-designing grounded visualisations of the Food-Water-Energy nexus to enable urban sustainability transformations
Case study of codesigning data visualisations for an effective decision support about food provision in kindergartens.
Quarto: a library to run them all? A collaborative exercise to use, learn and assess quarto for authoring reproducible documents in different scenarios
Using literate programming is a widespread practice amongst data scientists. This practice not only encourages data scientists to produce transparent, rich and reflective accounts …
Managing R script dependencies: automagic and renv
In this first session of the WRUG reproducibility series, I introduce two methods to deal with library dependencies: {automagic} and {renv}
Visualisation tool for a grounded FEW Nexus
An interactive dashboard
Ethical-political elements in research and intervention: reflections from social psychology
Assuming that social psychology is directly, intrinsically, totally and fundamentally political (Ibáñez, 1983), in this text we make a brief reflection in …
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Towards an urban agenda of the commons: a case study of the political demands of the urban commons in Barcelona
Urban commons is still an ambiguous concept from a theoretical standpoint and diverse in empirical terms, despite its popularity among urban social movements and academic studies. …