Data Resources for Nonprofits

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 [...]

One really common misconception is that the size of your population is closely related to how big a sample you need. Most of the time, the size of your population of interest doesn’t affect your [...]

Have you heard about We All Count – the project for equity in data we’re working on? From time to time, we’ll share our favourite WAC posts on the Datassist blog. Here’s [...]

I’ve talked a lot about the importance of data biographies on this blog. Spending some time to examine our data and where it’s from is important. Are these statistics from a sketchy source? A [...]

Connecting the dots between funding and data equity isn’t always easy — or popular. But it’s important to understand the relationship between who is paying for a study and that study’s results. [...]

I’ve spent a lot of time lately talking about RCTs (randomized controlled trials, for those of you who haven’t been listening). I’ve written blog posts. I spoke at the American Evaluation [...]