Cameron Cook A new IRB director will be leading the office, learn more about them and some of the changes from the IRB Efficiency Project. Campus has rolled out Research at UW-Madison, which provides searchable …
Datapoints: the RDS blog
Tools for Data Equity Part 2: Community-Based Approaches
Continuing our Practicing Data Equity series, Part 2 of our Tools for Data Equity post explores additional frameworks, approaches, and tools for building data equity in your research practices, especially those that center community-based approaches. …
Tools for Data Equity Part 1: Acknowledging Your Worldview
As we work to incorporate data equity into our practices, it is our responsibility as researchers and research support staff to evaluate our practices so that we can disrupt the encoding of implicit biases in …
The CARE Priniciples for Indigenous Data Governance – #BeFAIRandCARE
In our introductory post to our Practicing Data Equity series, we mentioned that research institutions, especially research intensive or predominantly white institutions, often wield inequitable power in research partnerships with communities. Historically research projects across …
Link Roundup March 2021
Cameron Cook The documentary “Coded Bias” will be available on Netflix starting on April 5! We’ve recommended it in past blog posts and we hope you’ll give it a watch! Virginia Tech will be hosting …
Link Roundup February 2021
Jennifer Patiño Throughout February, UW-Madison’s Data Science Hub will host the second annual Data Science Research Bazaar. This year’s theme is Data Science for the Social Good and will feature lightning talks, posters, interactive discussions, …
Practicing Data Equity: A New RDS Series
As we celebrate Black History Month, it’s a critical time to engage in actively anti-racist and social justice-focused work. However, it’s not enough to celebrate and focus on this work during one month every year. …