ISSUE 365  ·   December 7, 2021

Insight

An Ode to Responsible Data Science

Data is expected to be neutral and objective but how it's wielded is key. "Statistics, in their original form, is the state’s science. State-istics..." This is an important article about the census and the politics of data.
Microsoft Research Summit | danah boyd

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Tutorials, Projects & Opinions

Data is Wicked

It takes a village of people from varied backgrounds to do data science well. What does that mean for our tools?
Data Chasms | Skylar Payne

Pandora Papers: How journalists mined TBs of data 

The Pandora Papers is a trove of nearly 12 million leaked documents, including things like bank statements, presentations, audio files, spreadsheets, handwritten notes, etc. As a dataset, it's a mess. This article walks through how researchers are making sense of it and the tools that are being developed along the way.
Computer Weekly | Bill Goodwin

Getting started with unit testing in R

This tutorial is compiled from a recent R-Ladies workshop that showed how to get started with unit testing in R. Covers testing rationale, available tools, coverage, debugging, and more.
Shannon Pileggi

How Do You Figure Out And Justify Your Data Science Consulting Rate?

Businesses are used to paying more than you think for Data Science consultants and freelancers. But to be successful, you must know how to price and justify your rate.
High ROI Data Science | Vin Vashishta

How to Get Strategic Value from Data Analytics When Initial Attempts Fail

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Code & Tools

Tidy/Pandas Tutors

These new educational tools help you visualize basic operations in R’s tidyverse pipelines and Python’s pandas. They aren't debuggers but are good for creating small, self-contained examples that show what's happening in your code.

Tidy Data Tutor shows how a data frame changes at each step of a data analysis pipeline.
Sean Kross and Philip Guo

Pandas Tutor visualizes pandas chained method calls, step-by-step.
Sam Lau and Philip Guo

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Resources

The State of Open Data 2021

This year's edition of The State of Open Data summarizes the survey results from over 4000 researchers regarding their practices and challenges in sharing data. Generally, researchers want to share their data but for a variety of reasons, often don't. With COVID-19, climate change, etc, there are important issues here to consider. The report includes a collection of articles from industry experts around the world.
Digital Science

Data Visualization

30 days and as many maps

Awesome collection of 30-Day Map Challenge entries that show how to think about, design, and build a wide variety of map applications using Observable.​
Observable | Visionscarto

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