DATA COLLECTION & SOURCING

Is the “Interviewer Effect” Skewing Your Survey Results?

by Heather Krause | Jan 30, 2019 | Analysis, Data Collection & Sourcing, Project Design

Did you know that who collects your data can also affect it? It’s called the interviewer effect, and it’s crucial to consider it when using social surveys.

Fresh Apples to Old Oranges: A case study in why data biographies aren’t only useful, they’re ethical.

by Heather Krause | Jan 24, 2019 | Data Biography, Data Collection & Sourcing

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...

An Introduction to the Data Biography

by Heather Krause | Jan 21, 2019 | Data Biography, Data Collection & Sourcing

Building a data biography, a comprehensive background of the conception, birth and life of any dataset is an essential step along the path to equity in data science. This includes all data: data that you collected, data that comes from large trusted sources, data that comes from open data libraries, data that comes from peer-reviewed research. All data.