by Heather Krause | Jul 30, 2020 | Communication & Distribution
If you’re interested in equity in data then it’s not enough to simply design a data visualization based on ‘best practices’ and hope for the best. It’s important to go beyond hopeful good intentions and actually test whether or not your design is...
by Heather Krause | Jul 24, 2020 | Funding
The first stage in the WAC Data Equity Framework is ‘Funding’. Understanding the interplay between money, data, and decision making is essential to measuring the equity balance in your data projects. We’ve found that it can feel very daunting to properly describe the...
by Heather Krause | Jul 17, 2020 | Communication & Distribution
When you are communicating your Data Science findings, don’t ditch the scientific mindset you’ve had for all the other parts of your project. It’s not at all uncommon for We All Count to work with a project that has allocated tens of thousands of dollars toward...
by Heather Krause | Jun 26, 2020 | Analysis, Data Biography, Data Collection & Sourcing, Interpretation, Project Design
This is part 2 of our examination of Proxy Variables, take a look at our introduction to the subject here. So, is race a proxy variable? Should we use race as a proxy variable? In depends. Sometimes. In working we equity in quantitative...
by Heather Krause | Jun 12, 2020 | Analysis, Data Collection & Sourcing, Project Design
In my early years of analyzing data, I worked on a project that was designed to improve women’s self-empowerment. We needed to develop some data that would help us understand the potential impact of the project. Measuring self-empowerment is not a straightforward...
