“How Data Need People convincingly exemplifies why patient ethnographic studies are so needed today. I recommend the book as a model to everyone interested in practices of science.”

“Hoeppe joins scientific teams and studies them from the inside. He convincingly argues that junior scientists also effectively become ethnographers when being trained in their work, in the implicit knowledge in their subfields, and in the expectations of their profession.”

“This is the first long-term ethnographic study of how one of the oldest sciences we have, astronomy, lives a data-centric life today. A must-read not just for science and technology studies and the social sciences, but all data-focused fields and operations inside and outside the sciences.”

“Götz Hoeppe has become a leading sociologist of science because he grounds his inquiries in real-world field research where he identifies the local details of scientific work. In this ethnographically rich study Hoeppe explains to us what it is scientists do with digital data in order to make it science.”