Learning from Indigenous Ways of Knowing

by Heather Krause | Apr 16, 2021 | Project Design

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...

Research Brief: Paying Respondents for Data

by Heather Krause | Apr 2, 2021 | Data Collection & Sourcing, Funding

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...

Thoughts from Talking Data Equity: RFPs

by Heather Krause | Mar 19, 2021 | Funding

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...

How to Talk to Your Boss About Data Equity

by Heather Krause | Mar 5, 2021 | Communication & Distribution

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...

Getting Past Identity to What You Really Want

by Heather Krause | Feb 19, 2021 | Data Collection & Sourcing, Project Design

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...