by Heather Krause | Sep 27, 2019 | Data Collection & Sourcing, Funding |
Data is a commodity. Do your survey respondents feel data-rich? One of the things that made me uncomfortable when I first started working as a data scientist was the power imbalance in the data collection methods I was being trained in. One of my very first jobs was...
by Heather Krause | Sep 12, 2019 | Communication & Distribution |
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...
by Heather Krause | Jul 25, 2019 | Funding |
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...
by Heather Krause | Jul 11, 2019 | Analysis |
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...
by Heather Krause | Jun 21, 2019 | Analysis |
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...
