When you need to know more than just a general average, you need an Equity Gap Score. If you have a mandate that includes equity between any category of people, whether race, sex, income, education, geography, or whether or not they like sugar in their tea, you need...
Data is a commodity. Do your survey respondents feel data-rich? One of the things that made me uncomfortable when I first started working as a data scientist was the power imbalance in the data collection methods I was being trained in. One of my very first jobs was...
The way that data is communicated is inextricable from data itself. We should pay attention to how we symbolize, contextualize, and convey our data. Right now, data visualization is a hot topic, with new research and understandings coming out all the time. New mediums...
Real-Time Stats for Real-Time Problems: The Promises and Limitations of Predictive Methodologies in the Public Sector. Predictive analytics are a hot topic in many fields right now. Predictive analysis, or risk modeling, asks how we can use data not only to understand...
In the We All Count Data Lifecycle, the first step is Funding. Funding is often overlooked as a factor in data equity because it’s the hardest to change. Data scientists and data project workers often consider how to increase equity within their projects and...
