Statistics vs Data Science

This cartoon by Steve Breen for the San Diego Union Tribune is possibly one of the most beautiful tributes dedicated to Katherine Johnson at her death back in February 2020 [source: buff.ly/33twHxT]

Intersectional policies, intersectional activism and intersectional data must be the norm! 🙌

This week, the UN released new data on trends in #maternalmortality between 2000-2020. Some key findings 🧵: 1 woman dies every 2 minutes from complications of #pregnancy & #childbirth around the world.

Meet the woman behind early ARCHIVED - NASA Landsat images: Dr. Valerie L. Thomas. A self-taught programmer, she managed the development of Landsat image processing. Her work in the '70s helped show that satellite imagery could be used to support agriculture. go.nasa.gov/3EJMPgT #BHM

March is #WomensHistoryMonth! This is Margaret Hamilton, leader of the MIT team responsible for developing in-flight software for the Apollo moon landing in 1969. In this photo, she's standing next to the code that she and her team wrote by hand! #RoleModelsinCS #WomeninSTEM

It's not feminism, if it's not intersectional! That's why #endingRacialDiscrimination is key to #genderjustice for us. In a truly #feminist future, there is no space for power hierarchies, inequalities or discrimination.

Listen to march for our lives first national organizing director and now youngest member of congress Maxwell Alejandro Frost

#TransDayOfVisibility is a time to not only celebrate the trans community, but raise awareness about the challenges trans people face. #TDOV 🧵

Yayoi Kusama, All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, 2016 #WomensArt

This National Week of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW), it is essential we draw attention to the ongoing crisis of missing indigenous girls and women. No more stolen sisters. #MMIW #MMIWActionNow #NoMoreStolenSisters

#IDAHOBIT #SDGs 💸No poverty 🍲No hunger 🏥Health 📚Education ⚧️Gender equality 🚰Water 💡Energy 👩🏾‍⚕️Work 🏭Industry ✖️No inequalities 🏙️Sustainable cities 🪙Responsible consumption 🌍Climate action 🌊Life below water 🌳Life on land 🕊️Peace 🤝Partnerships #LeaveNoOneBehind

"We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.” ~ Bell Hooks

Through its Books Unbanned program, the Brooklyn Public Library offers teenagers across the United States access to its entire eBook collection, which includes Amanda Gorman's "The Hill We Climb." Spread the word.