Analytics as an Equalizer | Share Your Thoughts!

[SydneyF]

What kinds of topics and questions on diversity and equality in analytics are interesting to you? Please post your ideas here!

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In the meantime, I’ve collected a few data sources that might help you get the creative juices flowing. Please start exploring! I look forward to seeing what you find.

• Kaggle's 2017 State of Data Science Survey and Kaggle's 2018 State of Data Science Survey are both fascinating data sets that ask questions about the type of work data scientists do today.
• The Digest of Education Statistics can be used to help characterize education pipelines.
• The Bureau of Labor Statistics is a great resource for pay and industry data.
• Open-source Python code for a gender decoder is posted on GitHub. It might be interesting to use to explore job postings at your own company.

[sk1909]

Many companies, such as AT&T, are banding women in higher positions together to involve more women in data science and technical careers. This is great if you are in one of the hub cities or primary locations. Those of us who work for the fabulously huge companies but are not in the hub or primary locations have a hard time getting involved in face to face interaction, hands-on training, networking events and what have you. Being able to connect with other companies and vendors like Alteryx, Tableau and others in face to face interactions would be a huge plus to expand our technical knowledge and improve opportunities for growth and advancement of women in analytics.