Oblique

A Boutique Research Organization

Bringing Large Numbers and Small Samples Together

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What We Do

Oblique is not just a name, it is the method. You face problems by imagining new angles to tackle them. Inspired by the fruitful encounter of biomedical sciences and anthropology of medicine, you go beyond the distinction between qualitative and quantitative methods and invent techniques to navigate states that lie between active subjects and quantified objects.

Between Subjects and Objects

OBLIQUE specializes in bringing large numbers and small samples together. Designing customized research protocols shaped by social sciences, old and new. In close conversation with partners, you can leverage fieldwork and data science to imagine new solutions to difficult problems.

Making the Invisible Actionable

You build research that can capture what is hard to see, hard to measure, and hard to describe so that it becomes visible, analyzable, and actionable.

Trace Collection

You take descriptions seriously but you also acknowledge that no description is a first. Whatever you set to study, prior descriptions exist and existing statements abound. You study them by collecting digital traces and mobilizing natural language processing to make sense of these traces.

Intervention

Beyond capturing traces left by your subjects, you organize panels and design interactions between partners and the subject they explore. The crux of this method is to coordinate automated information collection about the subject and their first‑person reaction so as to maximise your understanding of the problems at hand.

Team Members

Vincent Lépinay

Socio‑anthropologist with a training in Paris (thèse at ENSMP, Center for the Sociology of Innovation) and in New York City (PhD from Columbia University sociology department). Vincent Lépinay brings skills in technical fieldworks and sociology of knowledge. He has taught at MIT in Cambridge, the European University at Saint Petersburg and Sciences Po in Paris. He has published Codes of Finance (Princeton University Press), Curating Hermitage (Columbia University Press) and Connaissances Françaises de la Russie (Presses de Sciences Po).

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Donato Ricci

Donato Ricci is a designer working at the intersection of data and information visualisation and experimental ethnography. He develops innovative methodologies, protocols, and artefacts that promote participation, collaboration, and public engagement in social research. His work has been presented at major conferences and exhibitions, including Medialab Prado, SIGGRAPH, ZKM. His projects have appeared in leading publications such as Data Flow, Information Graphics, and Visual Complexity, and have received multiple honours, including Malofiej silver and bronze medals, two Filaf awards, and selection for the ADI Design Index.

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Dimitri Müller

With training in mathematics and law, Dimitri Müller works as a data scientist designing algorithms, data pipelines and applying modern AI to make sense of large, unruly datasets. He’s collected and cleaned messy corpora across sociology, political science and art history, using machine learning to uncover insights within these complex domains.

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