Doing Descriptive Analysis With an Equity Lens: Who Gets Counted

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Many of the data projects that support libraries are based upon descriptive analysis. This includes things like calculating rates, percentages, averages, and percent change. How we design these descriptive analyses will have important human and mathematical consequences. Whose lived experiences get centered in these analyses are critical choices that anyone working with data needs to understand. This webinar will help you get started identifying and making choices about your analyses that support your equity goals.

Many of the data projects that support libraries are based upon descriptive analysis. This includes things like calculating rates, percentages, averages, and percent change. How we design these descriptive analyses will have important human and mathematical consequences. Whose lived experiences get centered in these analyses are critical choices that anyone working with data needs to understand. This webinar will help you get started identifying and making choices about your analyses that support your equity goals.

Presenter Bio: Heather Krause, PStat, is a data scientist and the founder of We All Count, a project for equity in data. We All Count works with teams across the globe to embed a lens of equity into their data products. Heather is a data scientist with over 20 years of experience building tools that improve practices and systems. Her cutting-edge approach to project design, data collection, analysis, reporting and visualization have placed her in high demand as a project lead, a crisis consultant and a speaker on the subject of data equity.

This Equitable Data Practices webinar series is brought to you by the California State Library and Pacific Library Partnership, and is part of the yearlong initiative Community-Centered Libraries: Harnessing the Power of Data to Equitably Serve Your Community. Please contact Linda Hofschire, Community-Centered Libraries project manager, if you have any questions. All webinars will be recorded.

To view the recordings of previous webinars in the series, please go to https://www.library.ca.gov/services/to-libraries/ccl/webinars/.

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