This panel features four papers that explore the relationship between data and colonialism from multiple geographic perspectives. Ashley Sanders Garcia’s paper extends the work of archival decolonization in the age of big data by offering a definition of restorative data justice and presenting two methods by which we may begin the endeavor. Through an exploration of case studies of Algeria, a palimpsest of overlapping Berber, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French legacies, Garcia reconstructs data lost in the violence of colonial conquest to resurrect the stories, if not the voices, of men and women long silenced. Turning to the British Empire, Roopika Risam’s paper examines how sources including travelogues, land surveys, blue books, and gazetteers offer insight on how the British built and managed their empire. She argues that these sources demonstrate that data was a colonial technology, as essential as navigation, the slave ship, and the gun. Considering the relationship between data and colonialism for Indigenous peoples, Jennifer Guiliano’s paper explores digital history projects that focus on the use of colonial data in the North American context. She focuses on the ways in which digital history methods can serve as extractive processes that continue the project of American colonization. This presentation explores the tensions that exist between recovery efforts that seek to enrich our knowledge of Native peoples and their communities and the struggle of digital historians to reckon with using data that was, and continues, to exert violence on Indigenous communities. Christy Hyman’s paper will focus on the demands of geoprocessing workflows when spatially referenced primary source data animates the history of slavery. Each panelist will speak for 10 minutes, reserving the rest of the time for a discussion among the speakers and audience in an effort to probe the connections between these geographically distributed studies of data and colonialism. This panel will be of interest to a broad audience of students, historians, archivists, and digital humanists, as it engages with questions of the archive, evidence, as well as how postcolonial theory shapes our methodological practices.