Getting Past Identity to What You Really Want

Heather Krause
5 min readFeb 19, 2021

Too often in data science, we use identity categories.

We once were hired by clients involved in a youth mental health situation where they needed to target scarce resources (why the resources were scarce is an entirely other conversation for a different time….) at providing support to young people in our community who were at risk for mental health…

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Heather Krause

Data scientist & statistician (one of only 150 accredited PStats worldwide). Providing data science services grounded in an equity lens. https://weallcount.com