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An Injustice!

·Jan 4

Working for the Algorithm

The dehumanization of the American workforce — For over four years, from October 2015 to October 2019, I worked a second job as a delivery driver for Doordash. During that time I saw it explode in popularity, pushing out or gobbling up most of its competitors, hiring massive amounts of drivers to keep pace with demand, and…

Business

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Working for the Algorithm
Working for the Algorithm
Business

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An Injustice!

·Aug 1, 2022

LGBTQ Americans Live In A Bubble

The Bubble is About to Burst — Officially, there’s never been a better time to be queer in America. For many LGBTQ people living here, especially those of us who are white and middle-class, we truly live in a golden era of public acceptance and legal protections. Both gender and sexuality are protected classes under the Civil…

LGBTQ

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LGBTQ Americans Live In A Bubble
LGBTQ Americans Live In A Bubble
LGBTQ

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Feb 13, 2022

Love Is Not Enough

The limits of affection in a hateful world — My younger brother texted me this past weekend and asked if we could talk. We’re both adults with families of our own living thousands of miles apart and although we used to be close, we’ve gradually drifted apart over time, distance, and the minutiae of adult life. …

LGBTQ

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Love Is Not Enough
Love Is Not Enough
LGBTQ

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An Injustice!

·Dec 8, 2020

How Many Transgender Adults Are in America?

Counting a Vanishingly Small Population — The transgender community has experienced a rise in cultural visibility in recent decades. While some of this attention is welcome, even necessary, to gain full acceptance into mainstream society, it has also brought resistance in certain quarters. Although 62% of Americans in 2019 reported being more supportive of transgender rights…

LGBTQ

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How Many Transgender Adults Are in America?
How Many Transgender Adults Are in America?
LGBTQ

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Nov 23, 2020

Gay Rights in America: A Legacy of Exclusion

Are You Too Queer for this Club? — In 1950, communist and labor organizer Harry Hay, along with a small group of friends, formed one of the first gay rights organizations in the United States. This organization, which would come to be known as the Mattachine Society (a reference to a group of medieval French maskers), grew to…

LGBTQ

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Gay Rights in America: A Legacy of Exclusion
Gay Rights in America: A Legacy of Exclusion
LGBTQ

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DataDrivenInvestor

·Sep 27, 2020

I Came Out as Trans like a Data Scientist

I am both a data scientist and a transgender woman. The two of course are completely unrelated and I only mention them together because I used the principles of one to help me deal with the messy realities of the other. I realize this description may be extremely eye roll-inducing…

LGBTQ

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I Came Out as Trans like a Data Scientist
I Came Out as Trans like a Data Scientist
LGBTQ

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An Injustice!

·Aug 29, 2020

The Radical Normalcy of Trans Youth

It feels good to be yourself — The simple genius of Theresa Thorn’s 2019 book It Feels Good To Be Yourself lies in the fact that it presents trans and non-binary youth as completely normalized and healthy members of society, which of course they are. This delightful and uplifting children’s book — geared to kids in the…

LGBT

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The Radical Normalcy of Trans Youth
The Radical Normalcy of Trans Youth
LGBT

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The Startup

·Jul 22, 2020

W.E.B. Du Bois and the Exhibit of American Negroes

How a racist oversight led to one of the most amazing looks at Black life ever created — In 1893, the “World’s Fair: Columbian Exposition” was held in Chicago to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the New World. It was intended to showcase the technological prowess and financial might of the United States of America. Several cities across the country engaged in an intense…

History

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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Exhibit of American Negroes
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Exhibit of American Negroes
History

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Jul 5, 2020

The Protests are Not Making America Sick

Exploding the Myth that Black Lives Matter Protests are the Cause of America’s Surge in COVID Cases — We’re in the midst of a resurgence in cases of COVID-19. Since mid-June, infections have surged to more than 50,000 new cases daily according to data from the Centers for Disease Control. …

Politics

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The Protests are Not Making America Sick
The Protests are Not Making America Sick
Politics

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The Startup

·Jun 25, 2020

Evaluating Economic Data to Reveal Discrimination

A look at the economic underpinnings of the Black Lives Matter movement using Seaborn, matplotlib, and the bar_chart_race animation — In this post, I will take data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and evaluate it using the Seaborn, matplotlib, and bar_chart_race packages. This post is a companion piece to the article 5 Graphs that Help Explain Black Lives Matter and is intended to be a code walk-through of how…

Data Visualization

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Evaluating economic data to reveal discrimination
Evaluating economic data to reveal discrimination
Data Visualization

10 min read

Melissa Ingle

Melissa Ingle

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Transgender data scientist and parent to two children.

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