What Choice Do I Have?

by Heather Krause | Jun 20, 2022 | Analysis, Communication & Distribution, Data Collection & Sourcing, Funding, Interpretation, Motivation, Project Design

The Data Equity Framework is a process that helps you to identify the many key choices you’ll have to make in a data project and provides tools and strategies to help improve your choice-making to better align with your equity goals. The other day someone raised a...

We Need to Fill in the Blanks in our Social Identity Data

by Heather Krause | Aug 27, 2021 | Communication & Distribution, Data Collection & Sourcing, Interpretation

Everytime I see a stat like “25% of respondents are Black”, I see only one piece of a four-piece puzzle filled in. With only this piece, I don’t know how to use this information. I don’t know if it matches the category from my dataset, I...

How to Support your Data Interpretations

by Heather Krause | Oct 24, 2020 | Interpretation

Whenever we attribute meaning to the results of a data project, we are interpreting those results. We’re using what we know about the data, the analysis, the project as a whole and all kinds of preexisting knowledge, opinions and worldviews to say, “ah, if that is the...

Proxy Variables Part 2: Race

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...

Result or Interpretation?

by Heather Krause | Dec 3, 2019 | Interpretation

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Supercharge your Averages with an Equity Gap Score

by Heather Krause | Oct 22, 2019 | Analysis, Communication & Distribution, Interpretation

When you need to know more than just a general average, you need an Equity Gap Score. If you have a mandate that includes equity between any category of people, whether race, sex, income, education, geography, or whether or not they like sugar in their tea, you need...