Three best practices for survey research from the 2020 electionDefining our audience, sharing assumptions, and being careful about preliminary data are best practices we must adopt in survey researchNov 11, 2020Nov 11, 2020
Cheap Talk and the gap between social media political engagement and votingMany Americans engage in cheap talk, political engagement on social media, but fail to do the essential act of voting.Oct 7, 2020Oct 7, 2020
The potential power of Asian-American voters in the 2020 electionAsian-Americans, though historically politically apathetic, could be significant in impacting outcomes of 10 states with 123 electoral…Sep 19, 2020Sep 19, 2020
“Shock and Awe” data storytelling7 principles of comparison, conversion, and contextualization in data storytelling to frame key findings and highlight actionable…Jul 14, 2020Jul 14, 2020
Ten Data CommandmentsWhile we may not to be in the room where analytics happens, we can be satisfied we have these rules on our side when we tell our storyJul 8, 2020Jul 8, 2020
Knowing what our data can’t sayHow to balance what we can say with the data we have with what we cannot say because we lack better data by imaging more perfect data.Jul 1, 2020Jul 1, 2020
Black Americans more likely to be arrested, incarcerated, treated violently, and killed by police.Factoring for initial police contact, racial disparities are persistent and systematic across all police engagement outcomes.Jun 14, 2020Jun 14, 2020
Over 294,000 African Americans would not be incarcerated if they were whiteThe funnel of unequal justice shows African Americans are more likely to be arrested and more likely to be in prison than white AmericansJun 9, 2020Jun 9, 2020
George Floyd was not an outlier; an African American is arrested every 15 secondsAnalysis of FBI crime data shows an African American is arrested every 15 seconds and murdered every 71 minutesMay 31, 2020May 31, 2020
Excel is the American cheese of analyticsExcel is the American cheese of analytics, underappreciated and ridiculed. But it is useful and plays important roles in our day-to-day…May 26, 20201May 26, 20201
