Aleksi Aaltonen

Journal publication

Information Systems Research published my article The Performative Production of Trace Data with Marta Stelmaszak. The articel is available here. — September 20, 2023

The duality of data

I made a (futile) attempt to define phenomena studied by information systems dicipline. 3 min read in Medium — August 30, 2023

Journal publication

Communications of the Association for Information Systems published my panel report What is Missing from Research on Data in Information Systems? with Alaimo, Parmiggiani, Stelmaszak, Jarvenpaa, Kallinikos, and Monteiro. Full text is available here. — August 3, 2021

Book chapter

My chapter Strategizing with Data: Data-based Innovations and Complementaries with Cristina Alaimo was published in Research Handbook on Digital Strategy — May 10, 2023

Social media was consuming me

Twitter and LinkedIn are useful tools for supporting your academic career, but avoid being drawn into the algorithmic games of Facebook. 6 min read in Medium — January 26, 2022

How to count the review rounds?

Confused how to communicate the status of your manuscript submitted to a peer-reviewed journal exactly? Here is how! 2 min read in Medium — January 10, 2022

Gender bias in Management Information Systems

Silvia Masiero and I reflect upon gender bias in the academic field of information systems. 4 min read in Medium — 8 December 2021

There is no self-plagiarism

Plagiarism is a gross academic misconduct that should be treated with zero tolerance – yet, there is no such thing as self-plagiarism. 2 min read in Medium — 4 October 2021

Journal publication

Journal of Management Information Systems published my article The Making of Data Commodities: Data Analytics as an Embedded Process with Cristina Alaimo and Jannis Kallinikos. Full text is available here. — 6 August 2021

Academia as competition

Competition in academia is great – but we must see it differently. 8 min read in Medium — 24 May 2021

I deleted my Academia.edu account

The social platform for academics will happily turn publishing into a rapid-fire game of quick, shallow publications, likes, meaningless citations and other vanity metrics. 3 min read in Medium — 3 April 2021

Solutions that create problems

Technology breeds more technology by creating problems that need technological solutions. 3 min read in Medium — 13 March 2021

A vocabulary of data science concepts

I wrote a simple summary of fundamental data science concepts for undergraduate students at Temple University. 2 min read in Medium — 5 February 2021

Paying for peer reviews is a bad idea

Paying for academic peer reviews is a well-intentioned bad idea. This post explains why. 5 min read in Medium — 24 November 2020

Book chapter

Our chapter with Cristina Alaimo and Jannis Kallinikos on data-based value creation has been published in Handbook of Digital Innovation. — July 2020

Donald Trump is smarter than you think

Donald Trump sucks intellectual energy more effectively than anything else we have ever seen. 2 min read in Medium — 25 April 2020

Hack from Home winners!

My team Health Traffic Lights won Hack from Home COVID-19 hackathon 4–5 April. The project is now called 'sharetrace' and aims to develop a truly private exposure and risk assessment solution to the coronavirus pandemic. More about the project at sharetrace.org — 15 April 2020

Virus outbreak/zombie movies to watch

Having to spend lots of time indoors recently? Take the opportunity to educate yourself with a timely selection of virus outbreak/zombie movies. 1 min read in Medium — 7 April 2020

The right time to take action?

A decision when to take an action can be just as important as the action that is taken. 2 min read in Medium — 26 March 2020

The more you measure them...

...the more they will game you. A brief summary of our findings on the use of people analytics with Marta Stelmaszak. 4 min read in Medium — 10 January 2020