We All Count Book Club (Plus)
Books Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Shoshana Zuboff) Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Safiya Umoja Noble) Artificial Unintelligence (Meredith Broussard) Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do...
Is the “Interviewer Effect” Skewing Your Survey Results?
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.
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
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.