Plagiarism
Visual Design
- Faceting plots avoids the overplotting problem
- Faceting can make it difficult to compare the values of faceted groups
- Design choices should be made deliberately
- Data presented with clear visualization and narrative communicates actionable insights more effectively
- Complex visual inputs are normally processed in a zig-zag pattern, starting with the upper left, moving to the right, then down to the bottom left, and to the right
- Chartjunk is extra decoration on a chart that does not communicate information about the data
- Bi-directional documents should focus on a centered or symmetrical alignment for text
- Being able to tell a story with data is a skill that needs to be learned and does not come naturally to those who work with data
- Basic visual design principles facilitate understanding data charts
- Avoiding cognitive load helps the audience process the information.
- Avoid charts with multiple axes
- Audience perception follows a few basic rules.
- Applying visual design principles increases data comprehension.
Data analysis
Knowledge Management
- Expository writing can increase your audience.
- Effective communication centers around a single main idea.
- Cross-disciplinary approaches are linked with higher productivity and creativity.
- Community makes reading sacred
- Commonplace books were used to record all the interesting things the author read or thought
- Capture notes widely and use a discovery process to find notes on specific topics
- Both digital and hand-written notes can be effective with training
- Avoid keeping notes on multiple platforms
Philosophy
- Exemplar categorization is the process of comparing an instance of something with an easily identified example in memory.
- Althusser’s interpellation or hailing is an unconscious process that turns something into a subject by calling attention to it and expecting a response
Gender
- Evidence against gender essentialism also comes in the fact that, across cultures, what it means to be of a specific gender is different
- Misogynoir is the intersectional oppression of Black women.
Labor and Capital
- Capitalist societies devalue labor power in favor of capital to gain an advantage over a population
- Capitalist frameworks don’t work in markets where the focus is on use-value and worth
Job searching
- Employers routinely use subtle discriminatory language in job postings.
- Coursework is less helpful than projects when writing a resume
- Avoid overusing buzzwords on your resume especially without evidence of application.
Mental health
- Emotions emerge in the process of meaning-making and in interactions with other people
- Emotions are artifacts of a culture expressed by an individual in a context
- Emotion is contextual and non-essentialist
- Culture shock is disrupted social support.
- Culture creates emotions rather than individuals
- Humility is a valuable trait.
Leadership
- Effective organizational change often comes from the ground up rather than imposed from the top down
- Distributed leadership increases employee’s emotional investment in the organization
- Any complex system that has survived was built from simpler systems that have proven their value.
Racism
- Dispassion is an ideal of white masculine habitus.
- Correcting language unsolicited is classist and racist.
- Being white is not the same as having a white racial habitus.
- Apoliticality is a feature of the white habitus.
- Anti-blackness is a distinct but related concept from white supremacy.
- Misogynoir is the intersectional oppression of Black women.
- Color-blindness reinforces underlying white-centeredness.
Disability justice
Implicit Bias
- DEI workers may have blind spots for their own biases.
- Biases are never completely erased, but can be weakened over time with effort
Social Work
- Correlations with socioeconomic status often mask the true cause of social problems.
- Community care is just as important as self-care
- Compassionate listening is a technique used to support someone processing a traumatic experience.
- Ethnic enclaves are associated with less access to mental health services
Transnationalism
- Copyright theft is a universal approach to technical inequity between nations.
- Ethnic enclaves are associated with less access to mental health services
- Cultural integration is a stressful endeavor.
- Correcting language unsolicited is classist and racist.
- The term third-world is rooted in a white perspective of geography.