Data Analysis Tools

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been talking about randomized control trials (RCTs) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. I’ve been trying to address questions about RCT alternatives, and why I don’t, [...]

This week’s blog post was inspired by Catherine D’Ignazio’s piece on putting data back into context over at DataJournalism.com. We’re big fans of her work and were super-excited to see that our [...]

I recently had the honour of being a guest blogger on the American Evaluation Association’s 365 blog. For those of you who don’t get over to the AEA site, I’m sharing the post here as well. Data [...]

I’ve been working with data for decades. And over the years, I’ve found myself increasingly uncomfortable with the way we teach, collect, and communicate it. Inequity and bias in data science are [...]

Have you heard about Google’s new Dataset Search feature? If you’re into data the way we are around here, you’ve probably already seen it, tried it, and noted some of the issues with it. But if [...]

Author’s note: This is an update to a post we originally published back in 2013. Some recent site updates resulted in resources moving around and all the links in that post breaking. (Sorry about [...]