Datapolitan

Our long-overdue post on teaching #designthinking by experience, based on several iterations of our Overview of Design Thinking course buff.ly/39fT0Z8

An evolution of my thinking on sharing job titles in our introductions for teaching and experiencing #DesignThinking inspired by the fierce and uncompromising @whytedw buff.ly/3fZ5as5

Here's the total breakdown of the 6,476 arrests by Race and Ethnicity

To echo the point on race and ethnicity in @DallasPD #opendata, from 1 Jan - 30 Jun 2020, there were 6,476 arrests. Of the 2,037 arrests where the arrestee's reported Race was "Hispanic or Latino", 100% of these listed the arrestee's Ethnicity as "Non-Hispanic or Latino"

Before reading this @dallasnews piece by @MorrisReports on #covid19 testing delays, think about what goes into the turn-around time for testing and then notice what part gets the blame by @TDEM and @TexasHHSC dallasnews.com/news/public-h…

If you liked my videos, join us at 2pm ET tomorrow (Wednesday) for our 2-hour #PayWhatYouCan online #OpenData class "Seeing Your City in Data" and get the live experience. We'll talk about what you can find and how you can use it. Learn more and sign up at buff.ly/3cIagHi

To wrap up our series on #opendata, check out this video on the concerns of open data: buff.ly/3g38SRK

Curious what this #OpenData thing is and how it benefits you? Check out my video on the benefits of open data: buff.ly/36bQt0n

Interested in #OpenData but don't know where to start? I put together a short video giving a brief answer to the question: "What is Open Data?" buff.ly/2LGVgh6

Join us at 2pm ET tomorrow for our 2-hour #PayWhatYouCan online #OpenData class "Seeing Your City in Data," our introduction to open data. We'll talk about what you can find and how you can use it. Sign up at buff.ly/3cIagHi

Learning the craft of #dataanalysis, we're often confronted with the problem of where to start. As we say, good analysis doesn't start with the data, it starts with the question. Learning to ask the right questions is how we become better analysts buff.ly/2AG5qMH

For those of you just getting into @zoom, we put together a "Zoom Drill" to walk everyone through the key features for class. We do it at the beginning so everyone is comfortable before we start. It's been really helpful so I thought I would share. vimeo.com/407215417

The three aspects of democracy with the nice mnemonic to remember them from @alexparsons as part of #TICTeC (but remember you can only do at most two at once)

Is it just me, or did @LastPass just disappear entirely from the @googlechrome web store? I get a 404 when I click the link and it suddenly disappeared from the web store results when I was trying to add it today after giving an error. You have any insights @LastPassHelp?

In giving us numbers (murders) without context (relationship to population), you're just reciting facts, not telling a story. I get @nicgarcia is under a deadline, but if we're going to say we need a solution, we need to make sure we understand the true magnitude of the problem

One thing that's clear is that December isn't as dramatic as presented in the original graphic. Compressing the axis range and banking the lines sharper makes things more dramatic (as Laurie Joseph did), albeit less accurate and useful

A more honest representation of the data would show the data on the same axis with proper trendlines so they can be compared visually across the winter months.

It's also misleading to compare months together with different axis values. In this case, the temp range for Dec is 35 to 55 degrees, Jan is 30 to 55, and Feb is 35 to 60. It's a distinction that gets lost in the details and makes this misleading when comparing across months