Supercharge your Averages with an Equity Gap Score
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...
What is Data Worth to You?
Data Collection Ethics in the Information Economy
Symbols in Data Communication
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...
The Promises and Limitations of Predictive Methodologies in the Public Sector
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...
How to Fund like a Boss
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...
Video: Not Your Average Average
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...
How to Model Data With Intersectionality
When you incorporate demographic data into your research, you’ll need to consider how you’ll represent the lived experiences of a diverse group of humans.
How I Became a Person of Colour
This week, we’re welcoming guest author Laura Sundstrom of Vantage Evaluation, who is sharing her experience at the Equitable Evaluation Design Lab.
Why We Need to be Data Detectives
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 England...
Why You Need a Motivation Statement
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...
