Rachel Whaley

Tips for teaching data skills for beginners

Everything I’ve learned about teaching analytics workshops (via plenty of trial and error!)

Dec 12 25December 12, 2025

Article at buttondown.com

How to build the most important skill data analysts need for AI

Beautiful formatting of code? AI’s got that down. Perfectly memorized regex syntax? Nice to have, but totally unnecessary with AI. Looking at an AI-generated...

Jul 11 25July 11, 2025

Article at buttondown.com

Advice for applying for data jobs

Nail the no-brainers, showcase your skills, and highlight your humanity.

Jun 14 25June 14, 2025

Article at buttondown.com

the robots are not taking over: why AI is not replacing data analysts

Last week, I tried to replace myself with AI. I faced a long list of data analysis projects decided to do my best to get them all done with AI instead of...

May 23 25May 23, 2025

Article at buttondown.com

3 tips for pivoting into a data career

Interested in pivoting into a data role from a non-data role? My #1 tip: find a way, any way, to do data work in your current role. Yes, there is definitely...

May 10 25May 10, 2025

Article at buttondown.com

new kinds of mistakes

What I’ve learned from teaching introductory Excel, SQL, and Python workshops in the age of LLMs

Apr 25 25April 25, 2025

Article at buttondown.com

Celebrating 15 cohorts of data equity workshops!

Incredibly grateful for and proud of the facilitation team that made this LA Tech4Good workshop such a success! This press release celebrates our first…

Feb 22 24February 22, 2024

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Data equity for everyone everywhere all the time! — LATech4Good

Catching up with Rachel Whaley, to find out how LA Tech4Good’s data equity workshops and community have evolved, and what’s coming up next.

May 03 23May 03, 2023

Article at latech4good.org

Data is power – let’s level the playing field for women — LATech4Good

Responsible data practice means leveling the playing field and making sure all women are fully and authentically represented in data and in decision-making.

Mar 23 23March 23, 2023

Article at latech4good.org

3 Ways to be a Responsible Data Practitioner — LATech4Good

Whether you already identify as a responsible data practitioner or if you're new to the idea, we outline three things you can do to advocate for equity in your data work.

Oct 24 22October 24, 2022

Article at latech4good.org

What is data equity and why does it matter? — LATech4Good

Data equity is a growing movement for more responsible data work, from analytics and data visualization to data science and machine learning to data-driven decision making.

Jul 15 22July 15, 2022

Article at latech4good.org

Building Ethics into Data Management — LATech4Good

Yes, there are a few looming, scary reasons why nonprofit professionals are rethinking their relationship with their own data. But there is another brighter side as well.

Mar 17 22March 17, 2022

Article at latech4good.org

Annenberg Insights: Championing a Data-Minded Culture

When we decided to embark on the Annenberg Insights project, we knew its success would depend not just on moving millions of data points onto a single centralized platform, but also on how accessible we were able to make it.

Mar 15 22March 15, 2022

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Fostering equity + ethics across data projects — LATech4Good

Lessons from our December data workshop series on Equity + Ethics in Data during the first three weeks of December.

Jan 11 21January 11, 2021

Article at latech4good.org

Organizing a new workshop with LA Tech4Good

Very excited to be organizing this workshop with LA Tech4Good – if you're interested in bringing an equity + ethics lens to your data work, join us! We're…

Nov 01 20November 01, 2020

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Applying an Intersectionality Lens in Data Science — LATech4Good

Data analytics is all about asking good questions and seeking informed answers that address a real need. But how do we decide which questions to ask and whose needs are prioritized?

Oct 22 20October 22, 2020

Article at latech4good.org

Presenting at Data Con LA 2020

Thrilled to be presenting at Data Con LA next month with Daphne Cheung on a topic I'm passionate about: using technology and data to make the world a better…

Oct 05 20October 05, 2020

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Waste Not: Schools as Agents of Pro-Environmental Behavior Change in Chicago Communities

Researched Chicago’s residential and public school recycling programs in order to identify neighborhood effects on school recycling rates and school impacts on local communities.

Jan 01 16January 01, 2016

Article at chicagostudies.uchicago.edu

Terminology in recent column derogatory

This is response to the article, “Transformed” (Telegram & Gazette, Oct. 23), concerning the Fernald facility. I would like to point out that in five instances, the author used the terms “mentally …

Nov 04 08November 04, 2008

Article at telegram.com

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