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Toronto Data Workshop (TDW) with Heather Krause: Equity in Data (or, how not to accidentally use data like a racist, sexist, colonialist, etc) (Jun 4, 2021)
Session Description
June 4, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Toronto Data Workshop (TDW) is a weekly hour-long discussion where academia and industry come together to share best practices for the initial data-centric steps in any applied statistics project.
Join us at the next TDW with Heather Krause from We All Count.
Free Event | Register online to receive workshop details
Talk Title
Equity in Data (or, how not to accidentally use data like a racist, sexist, colonialist, etc).
Speaker Profile
Heather remains unconvinced. As a statistician with decades of global experience working on complex data problems and producing real-world knowledge, she has developed the Data Equity Framework to address the equity issues in data products and research projects. Her emphasis is on combining strong statistical analysis with clear and meaningful communication. She is currently working on implementing tools for equity and ethics in data. As the founder of two successful data science companies, she attacks the largest questions facing societies today, working with both civic and corporate organizations to improve outcomes and lives. Her relentless pursuit of clarity and realism in these projects pushed her beyond pure analysis to mastering the entire data ecosystem including award-winning work in data sourcing, modeling, and data storytelling, each incorporating bleeding edge theory and technologies. Heather is the founder of We All Count, a project for equity in data working with teams across the globe to embed a lens of ethics into their data products from funding to data collection to statistical analysis and algorithmic accountability. Her unique set of tools and contributions have been sought across a range of clients from MasterCard and Volkswagen to the United Nations, the Syrian Refugee Resettlement Secretariat, Airbnb, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She is on the Data Advisory Board of the UNHCR.
