Data Availability Statement for "Teaching the Politics of Numbers with EthnoData"

The poster provided as source data is the "Sample clues from a digital scavenger hunt in EthnoData." These clues were used by a team of researchers from Kaleidos, University of Cuenca, during a virtual class taught online during the Covid-19 pandemic in December of 2020.

This document is relevant in the context of our contribution because it allows users to see the kinds of questions that were asked to students while exploring Kaleidos’ multimodal digital platform, EthnoData, which combines statistic data on violent deaths and ethnographic essays that critically engage with this information.

The datasets used in the platform as well as the essays are freely and openly available on EthnoData’s website (https://www.ethnodata.org/es-es/). The sample clues from the digital scavenger hunt are not available online as they were part of a side activity organized for undergrad students. For this, we are making these clues available as a pedagogical tool used previously in a teaching context to explore how people interacted with our digital platform when provided with an interactive exercise.

There are different ways we see this material being useful to others in the STS community. First, it can serve as an example of a didactic exercise used in the context of multimedia and multimodal digital platforms for innovatively engaging with materials. Users can, if they wish, follow the clues while using the platform as an experimental approach. Though some understanding of the Spanish language will be necessary, it is possible to “move” around the platform guided by these clues. Finally, we hope it can lead to further and ongoing conversations and inquiries around “devious designs” as Lindsay Poirier has called them, of data infrastructures and their potential for responsive scholarship.