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Relativistic Data Science

Data science with explicit awareness that data, analysis, and conclusions are relative to frameworks, contexts, and perspectives. Relativistic Data Science wouldn't just crunch numbers; it would understand that data is always collected from somewhere, that measurements reflect theories, that interpretations depend on frameworks. It would be capable of multi-perspectival analysis, framework-aware modeling, and explicit acknowledgment of its own situatedness. Data science that knows it's never just data.
"Standard data science showed a correlation. Relativistic data science asked: correlation according to which framework? Collected how? Interpreted by whom? It showed how different assumptions would yield different conclusions. It didn't just give answers; it gave answers-with-perspectives."
by Nammugal March 4, 2026
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