Data Reframed:
Teaching holistic data practices for a more equitable world
LA Summer Mixer
Wow, what a year for LA and we’re just half way! From fires to ICE, it’s been extremes.
We just hosted another data equity workshop and it feels like time for some in-person connection.
Thursday July 24
6:30-8:30 pm
Everson Royce Bar
1936 E 7th Street
Los Angeles CA 90021
🍍 RSVP HERE!🍍
Data Equity Skills Workshop Series
We wrapped up our latest data equity workshop series in early June. The format of working breakout groups is always popular, and we love that participants are already thinking of how to take lessons back to their organizations.
Join us for the next one. More on the curriculum & what to expect in this flagship program here!
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❝Our Leading Equitable Data Practices workshops are great for your school and, most importantly, your students,❞ says Yohance Barrett, data equity facilitator.
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About us and our programs
Learn how to use data responsibly for a more equitable world
We invite anyone who works with data to our signature Leading Equitable Data Practices workshops, where you’ll gain practical knowledge and tools to infuse equity and ethics into your work, and become a more active participant in the data equity community.
❝ Our programs train people to think about data in its respective context. We’re not teaching you math, statistics, or technical foundations, we’re training you to think from the lens of social justice and design justice as you use data and technology as a tool to further equity and the mission of your organization.
❝ The curriculum and exercises in our workshop are meant to elucidate that data is a product of our current systems and that there are opportunities and necessity to collect and use data in a manner that is grounded in concepts of equity and ethics.❞
–Eva Sachar, our Director of Advocacy
Our mission
Our mission is to support social justice by teaching equitable and ethical data practices
We believe data can be actively employed to mitigate injustices and build a more equitable world. Data must be employed with an equity lens, as a key tool in our toolbox, as we work for racial justice, gender equality, equitable healthcare, and more.
We also advocate for professional data norms rooted in equity, ethics, and data sovereignty, and the concept of data justice, contributing to social change through technology.
Our data principles
Data is about people
Nearly everything facet of modern life has been digitized, but ultimately data is a measure of people, individuals and community that can’t be reduced to numbers, algorithms and data.
Data is power
Mountains of data are collected and generated each day – and this impacts lives. Shouldn’t people own and control the data they generate – the data about them?
Data equity prompts accountability
Equity practices require action and accountability, encompass data privacy considerations, and require transparency while protecting anonymity.
Technological change outpaces regulation
Regulation lags far behind the rate of change in technology, so those creating data projects generally must rely on their own efforts to ensure that people are not harmed through unregulated processes.
Data equity enables informed action
The collection and analysis of data around inclusivity, bias, and inequity can be useful in counteracting these same problems, and implementing more equitable data practices support these efforts.
What people are saying
“I really enjoyed the workshop! Y’all pulled together a really thoughtful, well organized agenda that introduced me to new resources and concepts! I also really appreciated hearing about others’ work and the intentionality in helping us figure out how to embed data equity principles into our current projects. Shout out to the facilitators too! ”
Read more nice things on our Wall of Love here
“Equity is both an outcome and a process.”
— Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, Data Feminism