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, senior data scientist at Natera, wanted to use their data viz experience to contribute to the bigger, growing conversation about race. The focus of their work expanded as they conducted conversations with nearly two dozen experts, uncovering a greater necessity to examine how people and organizations collect data, where the data comes from, why it’s necessary to respect and include the people you research, and how to explore the entire research ecosystem.
The language in Figure 2 is not as inclusive as it could be. “Poverty” refers to an experience, not a static description, and “More Black” refers to skin color, not people. More inclusive language might be “Larger proportion of people experiencing poverty” and “Larger proportion of the Black population.
To demonstrate how aggregating racial groups can mask variations across more detailed information, the corresponding figure shows the estimated 2019 poverty rates for 139 racial groups recorded in the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Dots show estimated poverty rates for all 139 groups and the overall poverty rate for major racial groupings frequently used in analyses. As you can see, the poverty rate for some of these groups varies widely.
Figure 4: Legend showing a problematic color scheme applied to data on race and ethnicity. The shades of red apply to people of color while the only group that has its own color is white people, suggesting that they are the norm or default to which all other groups should be compared. Red can have negative connotations in Western culture—often associated with danger or aggression. The graduated color palette can also be misinterpreted as suggesting a hierarchy.
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