With the amount of incredibly insightful questions I have received from allies this week, I decided to make this Anti-Racist Resource Guide: docs.google.com/document/d/1a-…

y’all i’m not even saying don’t do the blackout, if you want to go ahead. but if that’s all you do, it’s performative. and on top of that, there are hella ways for EVERYONE to get involved in and outside the US. just reminding y’all that BLM ain’t some trend you can subscribe to.

There are lots of ways you can celebrate #Juneteenth. Below are a few suggestions: -Sign the The Black Remembrance Project petition to make Juneteenth an official city holiday bit.ly/6-19-20

Dashboards are often what customers ask for. They are rarely what customers need. If you’re building a dashboard, it’s likely your user research wasn’t finished.

A few days ago, the University of Chicago, i.e. the president and provost, emailed the campus with a subject mentioning “public safety” The email starts out by calling for an “examination and reflection of law enforcement in our society” 🧵 👇🏾

A common pathology among experts in quantitative field is to assume that when they are dealing with problems with qualitative dimensions that they can simply model the quantitative part and ignore the squishy human factors. This does not end well. 1/

Ok here we go. Look at the electoral maps by county for the last few decades of US presidential elections.  You’ll notice that the South goes almost uniformly Republican red every time. Duh. But if you look closer, there’s something else there ...

"We are all responsible for the rules. When a multi-billion dollar tech company takes a hidden audit regulatory exemption, that's on all of us." 🔥🔥🔥 by Margins on Doordash: themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and…

A majority of people incarcerated pretrial in Illinois are in jail only because of the size of their bank accounts. That's not right! If you live in IL, tell your legislators we want #PretrialFairnessNow: bit.ly/PretrialFairne…

The more I think about today’s front page of the New York Times, the more it is for me another watershed moment for data visualization. But not for good reasons. This graph is confronting us with the limitations of data visualization to convey tragedies.

looking at the data and simply laughing

Feeling incredibly grateful for my vaccine and absolutely in awe of the ingenuity and hard work that made it possible: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

I'm always confusing the names of various ominous organizations so I made a handy chart to keep track

Things can go disastrously in data science projects wrong when we: - undervalue data work - ignore the context of data - neglect the role of humans - don't listen to the people most impacted My new post: fast.ai/2021/11/04/dat… 1/

“You’ve just got to get started.” Six words from Allbirds’ Tim Brown that helped fuel our internal work to reach Net Zero. IDEO’s Iain Roberts reflects on the scope of work and challenges for businesses to address climate change. Read now on The Journal: ideo.in/35l7idx

such good wisdom in here for grugs and big brains alike

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