dataviz
Equity
June 27, 2018
See if Your School District or University Has Been Investigated for Civil Rights Violations
The United States Department of Education investigates claims of civil rights violations in K-12 and higher educational institutions. The data…
Arts + Letters
June 22, 2018
Is Captain America a Woman? No. This Data Viz of 34,000 Comic Book Characters Shows Us Why That’s a Problem
Graphic novels and comic books are becoming increasingly popular in schools. New York City public schools even officially recommended Black Panther for…
Equity
June 13, 2018
A Stunning Data Viz of Segregation in Chicago Public Schools
We often hear the word “achievement” used to describe the challenges in public education. That word tends to mask the…
Culture
June 5, 2018
Data Science Confirms that We Are All Watching VERY Different News Channels
It’s one thing to know that you tend toward one news outlet or another. It’s another thing to see the…
Administrators
May 14, 2018
How Women Took Over Education Administration
All I’m going to say is the Nation at Risk report was published in 1983, triggering decades of aggressive reforms…
Computer Science Education
April 13, 2018
Racism and the Limits of Data Visualizations
What a thoughtful discussion of the limits of empirical data and visualizations in public discourse. In this commentary, Andre Perry…