Mind Your Own Data https://mindyourowndata.org/ Writing on data practice, privacy, and institutional accountability. quarto-1.8.25 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Transparency is infrastructure Gabrielle Josling https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/foi-disclosure-logs/ https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/foi-disclosure-logs/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Footy fields and tech giants: how the case for the social media ban was built Gabrielle Josling https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/social-media-ban-language/ https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/social-media-ban-language/ Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nobody’s responsible: inside the data broker supply chain Gabrielle Josling https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/data-broker-supply-chains/ https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/data-broker-supply-chains/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Feedback loops and the limits of responsibility Gabrielle Josling https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/ml-feedback-loops/ https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/ml-feedback-loops/ Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Access rights in practice: reflections from 60 data access requests Gabrielle Josling https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/app12-request-patterns/ https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/app12-request-patterns/ Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Can disabled people…? What autocomplete reveals about views on disability Gabrielle Josling https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/autosuggest-disability/ https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/autosuggest-disability/ Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT A taxonomy of awkward conversations with stakeholders Gabrielle Josling https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/difficult-conversations/ https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/difficult-conversations/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Data ethics is your job Gabrielle Josling https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/data-ethics-is-your-job/ https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/data-ethics-is-your-job/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Measuring how long things take is harder than it seems Gabrielle Josling https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/right-censoring/ https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/right-censoring/ Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT The case against propensity modelling Gabrielle Josling https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/case-against-propensity-modelling/ https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/case-against-propensity-modelling/ Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Everything breaks eventually: data science lessons I’ve learned the hard way Gabrielle Josling https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/lessons-learned-the-hard-way/ https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/lessons-learned-the-hard-way/ Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT The hidden work of data science projects Gabrielle Josling https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/hidden-work/ https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/hidden-work/ Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT ScoMo’s last hurrah? Gabrielle Josling https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/scomo-last-hurrah/ https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/scomo-last-hurrah/ Sat, 21 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT Automated web scraping using GitLab CI/CD Gabrielle Josling https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/automated-scripts-gitlab/ https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/automated-scripts-gitlab/ Mon, 19 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT The Prime Minister’s speech: A textual analysis Gabrielle Josling https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/scomo-speech/ https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/scomo-speech/ Sun, 04 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT UI/UX and data science Gabrielle Josling https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/ui-ux-and-data-science/ https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/ui-ux-and-data-science/ Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT Unsupervised learning and lessons from the science of personality testing Gabrielle Josling https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/personality-tests/ https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/personality-tests/ Mon, 25 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT A deep dive into short circuit evaluation Gabrielle Josling https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/short-circuiting/ https://mindyourowndata.org/posts/short-circuiting/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT