# Dataification ![[Screen Shot 2019-03-11 at 11.31.00 PM.png]] Data is never merely collected or found. Data is socially constructed, and reflects the biases and worldview of those who create it Dataification atomizes, unifies, and Enrollment management Marketing automation — Capture higher ed Surveys From open source to enterprise tech Institutional research From free to TAP Dataification within the frame of art Not just technological Through management frameworks, a hardening [Self-Study Report for Comprehensive 2018 Middle States Re-Accreditation](../Documents%20c1d234f79b38480bbfa8ba05843101e7/Self%20Study%20Report%20for%20Comprehensive%202018%20Middle%20St%207430fb6b39e84b058e464348ccc607bc.md) I'm not arguing against data, but against its sloppy implementation at Cooper. Against its overreach. Against the managerialism that created it and is maintained by it. [2008 Smith College Commencement](../Documents%20c1d234f79b38480bbfa8ba05843101e7/2008%20Smith%20College%20Commencement%207fb8fe01cfb0430987b793365f663053.md) > The other great threat to classroom teaching is the rush to data — data-driven education. We must measure everything — percentages, charts, tables. I’m not entirely opposed to this. If data-driven education were a pie graph, I would have a piece. But I was not educated and did not become a teacher to produce data, a bar graph, a scantron. I remember being in the room, and no data and no bar graph will be assembled to replace that, or even to capture it. [https://vimeo.com/1085942](https://vimeo.com/1085942)