Develop a summative account of a data archive that supports your existing interdisciplinary research question, Read over the passages selected below from Sites Unseen before completing each section of this assignment.

Develop a summative account of a data archive that supports your existing interdisciplinary research question, Read over the passages selected below from Sites Unseen before completing each section of this assignment. You must find your own data archive that relates to your research questions or statement
Briefly describe what your data is.

Look at Frickel and Elliott 113-115. Where is your data located and why/how does access matter for your study?

Look at Frickel and Elliott 115-117. Does your data need to be harmonized or brought together with other kinds of data? How you plan to do that? Otherwise, how do you determine what data to use and how are you going to compile or organize it? Give justification for these decisions.

For inspiration for these next two parts of the assignment, make sure to read Frickel and Elliott, particularly 19, 35, and from 41-51, where they note why they have decided to study manufactory directories to build a Historically Hidden Industrial Database (HHID), as opposed to studying a specific site from its present to its past.

What has been left out of your sample? Why? For instance, look at how Frickel and Elliott talk about why the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory was not their primary source of data. What is your criterion, or structure, for what you include in your data?

Frickel and Elliott write: “For our research, we were interested in sites where manufacturers were likely to leave behind hazardous wastes on the lots they occupied” (115). Keeping in mind that Frickel and Elliott chose to compose a study that produced a method for assessing the likelihood of urban industrial contamination, what does your sample let you see that another might not? How might other scholars build on your data using other disciplines or methods?

Is your data empirical, conceptual, or both? Why?

You don’t need to cite the Frickel and Elliott book. I’m encouraging you to look to the reading because the authors display critical awareness about what their data is and what it can do versus other kinds of related data. They also talk about how the way researchers organize data will structure outcomes in ways that are necessarily partial and incomplete. You are expected to similarly account for the knowledge your data can provide when compiled and interpreted. And, for how organizing your data in your own specific way won’t let you see everything. To answer for how your data or study is incomplete, you can always identify how someone else can build on or complement what you have accomplished.

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