Learning #1: Indigenous Quantitative Methods A few months ago I set out to create a research brief of Indigenous Quantitative Methodologies. I wanted to start a survey of just some of the existing ways that Indigenous cultures around the world create knowledge and...
Does Paying or Compensating Survey Respondents Negatively Affect Response Quality or Reliability? At We All Count, we think a lot about how to increase the equity of the data gathering process. We make a living off of the data science ecosystem and so do many of our...
At our recent Talking Data Equity session, 150+ people turned up to discuss one of the most important (and frustrating) parts of the data ecosystem in the mission-driven sector: Requests for Proposals (RFPs). If you haven’t been through such a process, it’s...
Talking about data equity can be tricky. Maybe you’ve been to a conference or a workshop where you encountered an idea, a tool or a process that you’re super excited about. You want to bring it up with your team on Monday but by then you’re a little...
Too often in data science, we use identity categories. We once were hired by clients involved in a youth mental health situation where they needed to target scarce resources (why the resources were scarce is an entirely other conversation for a different...
