Oliver J. Bear Don't Walk IV

Krystal Tsosie and Oliver Bear Don’t Walk share stories of their career paths and how their backgrounds became a driving force in protecting the data of others, as well as the inspiration for a groundbreaking data science workshop.

This state of missingness, or data erasure, is a blind spot in many statistical approaches to datasets. It’s also a bit of an anachronism if we’re supposedly living in the Big Data era.

Inclusion is often used synonymously with equity. But they are different. Increased inclusion in datasets for different groups is not something new. It's always been called for. But inclusion without equity, as in the case of the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP), means that many global Indigenous populations were included in datasets but afforded no equity after the fact.