Decision-driven Data for Planning and Design

Harvard GSD

In this course, you will learn about the institutional structures — such as laws, regulations, policies, the workforce, and the relationship between the public and private sectors — through which, and because of which, data and artificial-intelligence systems operate. The course addresses how designers and planners can understand and incorporate into their work this “human side” of data and AI: the institutions that determine whether data is created, how data is used, who is involved in the…