Data-based impact evaluations are an essential way for nonprofits to understand how their work is affecting the people they aim to help. But how do we determine what constitutes an improvement? What is our yardstick for success? In many cases, impact evaluations look...
Books Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Shoshana Zuboff) Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Safiya Umoja Noble) Artificial Unintelligence (Meredith Broussard) Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do...
Most of us know that careful data collection is important to quality data analysis. Asking how your data was collected and where it comes from is critical. Especially when the results of your analysis are going to affect people’s lives. But did you know that who...
It’s not ethical to rank countries without giving us details on the data. It’s not equitable to rank countries on data from wildly different years. Where is the data biography for the new OECD Social Institutions and Gender Index? I do a lot of work in the area of...
I was once working with a dataset that had a variable called “Group Gender Composition.” The options were “Men”, “Women”, or “Mixed.” I was doing an analysis of group process and productivity broken out by group gender composition. I also had the dataset that...
