In last week’s email newsletter I mentioned Naomi Wolf’s data problems (That’s Naomi Wolf – not Naomi Klein as I accidentally wrote in part of the text. Apologies to Naomi Klein fans!) In Wolf’s latest book she makes claims about the number of men executed in...
Most of us know that careful data collection is important to quality data analysis. Asking how your data was collected and where it comes from is critical. Especially when the results of your analysis are going to affect people’s lives. But did you know that who...
It’s not ethical to rank countries without giving us details on the data. It’s not equitable to rank countries on data from wildly different years. Where is the data biography for the new OECD Social Institutions and Gender Index? I do a lot of work in the area of...
2023 Edit: We have updated the Data Biography Template. The new version can be found here. I was once working with a dataset that had a variable called “Group Gender Composition.” The options were “Men”, “Women”, or “Mixed.” I was doing an analysis of group process...