Overview
Responsible Datasets in Context is an open educational resource that provides curated datasets paired with long-form essays, programming exercises, and discussion activities for undergraduate computing and data science education. Supported by a Mozilla Responsible Computing Challenge grant, the project has grown into a widely adopted resource used by instructors, students, librarians, and researchers across disciplines and institutions.
By the Numbers
20,000+
unique website visitors
230+
students who have worked with our materials in a class setting
10+
university library guides
7+
institutions with courses using our materials
Awards & Recognition
American Studies Association Digital Project Award — awarded to Responsible Datasets in Context for its contribution to digital scholarship in American Studies.
POEM (Project on Open and Evolving Metaliteracies) — forthcoming in this IMLS-funded open educational resource collection at Carnegie Mellon University.
Big Ten Data Visualization Championship (Love Data Week 2025) — our National Park visit dataset was selected as the featured dataset for this multi-institution data visualization competition.
Press, Media, & Citations
- “Trump Administration Bars NPS from Reporting Visitor Data” — Mountain Journal
- “Miriam Posner Awarded Mozilla Grant” — UCLA School of Education & Information Studies
- “B1G Data Viz Contest” — University of Illinois Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
- Cited in:
- “Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI” — Klein et al.
- “Design Studio as Method: Reparative Archives and Beyond” — Lindblad, Grumbach, & Boyles (Journal of Electronic Publishing)
- “Border Women Literature and Feminist Cartographies” — Esmaeili, Corona, & Medrano (Signs: Gender and Policy)
- Combatting Bias toolkit — Huygens Institute / Dutch Research Council
- “Bias in AI: How to Spot It, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do” — McKone (Johns Hopkins University Libraries)
Presentations
- Digital Humanities 2024 (DH2024)
- Modern Language Association 2025 (MLA 2025)
- Data Advocacy for All, CU Boulder 2025
- University of Texas at San Antonio
- UW Open Scholarship Commons: “Situating Data: Strategies for Curation and Contextualization”
Student Projects
Our datasets have inspired independent student projects and creative work:
- Big Ten Love Data Week — students created data visualizations using our National Park dataset as part of the multi-institution data visualization competition.
- Student-driven analyses published on RPubs using R and our datasets.