Sometimes we’re told numbers that just don’t seem right. Even when the math is shown to us, the answer doesn’t align with the world we see around us. Rather than burying our heads in the sand and denying the math, or just conceding that our feelings are wrong and...
It’s Pride weekend here in Toronto and the word of the day of The 519, a city organization dedicated to advocacy for the inclusion of LGBTQ communities is intersectionality. We’ve talked about the importance of using an intersectional approach in increasing the...
This week, we’re welcoming guest author Larissa Veloso a multifaceted professional who works in journalism and marketing. Larissa is sharing her experience with data on race and ethnicity. A version of this piece originally appeared in Larissa’s Medium...
In last week’s email newsletter I mentioned Naomi Wolf’s data problems (That’s Naomi Wolf – not Naomi Klein as I accidentally wrote in part of the text. Apologies to Naomi Klein fans!) In Wolf’s latest book she makes claims about the number of men executed in...
Why are you doing your data project? This is the key question of the second step in The Data Lifecycle: Motivation. All data projects have a driving force behind them, often many at once. A clear, transparent definition of all the reasons why a project is being done...
