{"id":7255,"date":"2020-01-09T01:59:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T01:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7255"},"modified":"2020-01-09T01:59:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T01:59:15","slug":"there-are-2373-squirrels-in-central-park-i-know-because-i-helped-count-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7255","title":{"rendered":"There are 2,373 squirrels in Central Park. I know because I helped count them"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/01\/08\/nyregion\/central-park-squirrel-census.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/squirrel-census-static-promo-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I volunteered for the first squirrel census in the city. Here\u2019s what I learned, in a nutshell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From Lauren Klein on Twitter I learned about a great New York Times article on&nbsp; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/01\/08\/nyregion\/central-park-squirrel-census.html\">There are 2,373 squirrels in Central Park. I know because I helped count them.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>The article is by Denise Lau (Jan. 8, 2020.) As Klein points out, it is about the messiness of data collection. (Note that she has a book coming out on <a href=\"http:\/\/datafeminism.io\/\">Data Feminism<\/a> with Catherine D&#8217;Ignazio.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I volunteered for the first squirrel census in the city. Here\u2019s what I learned, in a nutshell. From Lauren Klein on Twitter I learned about a great New York Times article on&nbsp; There are 2,373 squirrels in Central Park. I know because I helped count them.&nbsp;The article is by Denise Lau (Jan. 8, 2020.) As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7255\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There are 2,373 squirrels in Central Park. I know because I helped count them<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,58,27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-ethics-of-data-science","category-media-and-news","category-playful-or-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7258,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255\/revisions\/7258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}