What Data Relationship are You In?

Heather Krause
8 min readAug 5, 2021

When we want to address equity in data science, we often need to talk about power and we sometimes need to talk about money. It can be useful to think about an individual’s data like a raw resource, you could call it something cheesy like “Dataonium”. There’s a reason that our icon for Step #4: Data Collection & Sourcing in the Data Equity Framework has a pickaxe in it. The fact that data science uses words like “mining”, “raw”…

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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