Academic Publications
(Accepted) Seolha Lee, and Rachel B. Warren, Melissa Mazmanian. 2024. Efficient service provider or Committed social reformer?: Governmental data storytelling around city data projects. Big Data & Society (TBD July 2025),
Rachel B. Warren, Lisa Pickoff-White, Aditya G. Parameswaran, and Niloufar Salehi. 2025. RequestAtlas: Supporting the Slow and Iterative Process of Requesting Public Records. Proceedings of the ACM Human Computer Interaction 9, 2, Article CSCW158 (April 2025), 35 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3711056
Rachel B. Warren, Emily Aiken, and Joshua Blumenstock. 2022. Note: Home Location Detection from Mobile Phone Data: Evidence from Togo. In Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS ’22), June 29, 2022. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 685–692. https://doi.org/10.1145/3530190.3534830
Rachel B. Warren and Niloufar Salehi. 2022. Trial by File Formats: Exploring Public Defenders’ Challenges Working with Novel Surveillance Data. Proceedings of the ACM Human Computer Interaction. 6, CSCW1 (April 2022), 67:1-67:26. https://doi.org/10.1145/351291
Conference Presentations and Workshops
(Upcoming, Apply now!) Myeong Lee, G. Mauricio Mejia, Rachel B. Warren, Yunan Chen, Hiba Siraj, Melissa Mazmanian, Ruchita Arvind Mandhre, and Kathleen H. Pine. 2025. Mapping Risk Work and Designing Technologies to Support it. In Proceedings of Companion of the 2025 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CW Companion ’25). ACM, New York, NY, USA
(Upcoming, Apply now!) Ridley Jones LeDoux, Seolha Lee, Pelle Tracey, Rachel B. Warren, Trine Rask Nielsen, and Andrew Hamann. 2025. Governments as design contexts: Institutional realities of technology and design in government settings. In Proceedings of Companion of the 2025 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CW Companion ’25). ACM, New York, NY, USA
(Upcoming) Rachel B. Warren, Melissa Mazmanian, and Kathleen H. Pine. . 2025. Something is always on fire: tensions of temporality in the American Fire Service. In The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA, USA. (Program)
Seolha Lee, Rachel B. Warren, and Melissa Mazmanian. 2023. Interrupting governments’ data performance: Critical reading of government data narratives as a strategy to empower communities in data-driven cities. In Data Justice 2023 Conference. Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.
Technical Publications:
Holden Karau and Rachel Warren. 2017. High performance Spark: best practices for scaling and optimizing Apache Spark (First edition : June 2017 ed.). O’Reilly Media, Inc, Sebastopol, CA.