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Do No Harm Guide: Applying Equity Awareness in Data Visualization

by , posted on 11:48 AM, July 15, 2021
When data are collected and communicated carelessly, data analysis and data visualizations have an outsize capacity to mislead, misrepresent, and harm communities that already experience inequity and discrimination.
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One of the three dimensions of science learning is Science and Engineering Practices. The process of science involves gathering, analyzing, and reporting data. According to the article Do No Harm Guide: Applying Equity Awareness in Data Visualization by Jonathan Schwabish and Alice Feng,

"When data are collected and communicated carelessly, data analysis and data visualizations have an outsize capacity to mislead, misrepresent, and harm communities that already experience inequity and discrimination."

Read the article here.