Black Hair and Data Science Have More in Common Than You Think
summary
Argues that caring for Black hair and doing data science share concrete parallels and practical mappings rather than metaphors, shows a table linking Andre Walker hair types to data shapes and tools, highlights type four = unstructured text and recommends R for messy text while contrasting with SPSS and Python, points to organizations doing operational work — Carpentries’ train‑the‑trainer model with open source lessons, Data for Black Lives’ ~20,000‑member network, Algorithmic Justice League — and offers a QR code to the full mapping that people can reuse.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:50Overview
- 1:56Impostor Syndrome
- 2:46The Hair Tals
- 3:52Call and Response
- 4:39Data Science Journey
- 5:11Parallels
- 5:30Complex
- 9:10Tools
- 10:01Andre Walker
- 11:06The Table
- 11:45The Data
- 12:26Summary
- 13:46Organizations
- 16:04Call to Action
- 16:59Questions for you
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