“We are a small population of people because of genocide. No other reason. If you eliminate us in the data, we don’t exist. We don’t exist for the allocation of resources”. – Abigail Echo-Hawk, Pawnee, Director of the Urban Indian Health Institute and Chief...
The pandemic disruption created a problem for the UK education system: how to move students forward without being able to run their typical exams and tests. In response to this, testers designed an algorithm they would use to assign probable scores instead. It worked...
A map isn’t just a map. The work of alternate cartographer Denis Wood often reminds me that maps are equal parts poetry and science. They can also be some of the most insidious and powerful tools of cultural oppression. Maps are a very special kind...
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...
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...
When I was a graduate student, I was studying mathematical statistics and was interested in ways to use my work as a feminist. I took several women’s studies research methods classes and asked a variety of professors how to use quantitative statistics from a feminist...
