Civic Meetup #540: Numbers Are Not Real
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Topic: Numbers Are Not Real
Math is malleable, data is deceptive, numbers are not as real as you think they are. From government budgets, to vanity metrics, people use numbers to underscore their point. It can be terribly persuasive, it can also be terribly manipulative. How do you decipher a statistic someone shares? If you are a researcher or communicator, how do you ensure you don’t misrepresent findings? In this talk Terra Loire Gillespie will bring you through some of these dilemmas, and bring you behind the scenes of some of their most recent projects.
Speaker: Terra Gillespie
Terra is the principal of Terra Etc, a professor at Seneca, and occasional journalist. A community-driven digital strategist + researcher helping movements, nonprofits, and coalitions do “all things digital” – from discovery to reporting – in ways that grow community power, not just conversions.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 Breakout groups
Code of Conduct:
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:
https://link.civictech.ca/chat
About Us:
Our weekly civic meetups bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data.
Interested in speaking at a future event, or know someone who'd be a great speaker? We'd love to hear from you:
https://link.civictech.ca/speaker-suggestions
Have a space that could host up to 80 civic-minded folks for an evening? Consider recommending your venue:
https://link.civictech.ca/venue-suggestions
Come and be part of it!
For more info:
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Platform Sponsors
Torc is a community-first platform bringing together remote-first software engineer and developer opportunities from across the globe. Join a network that’s all about connection, collaboration, and finding your next big move — together.
Join our community today!
Don't let broken lines of code, busted API calls, and crashes ruin your app. Join the 4M developers and 90K organizations who consider Sentry “not bad” when it comes to application monitoring. Use code “guild” for 3 free months of the team plan.
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Civic Meetup #540: Numbers Are Not Real
Topic: Numbers Are Not Real
Math is malleable, data is deceptive, numbers are not as real as you think they are. From government budgets, to vanity metrics, people use numbers to underscore their point. It can be terribly persuasive, it can also be terribly manipulative. How do you decipher a statistic someone shares? If you are a researcher or communicator, how do you ensure you don’t misrepresent findings? In this talk Terra Loire Gillespie will bring you through some of these dilemmas, and bring you behind the scenes of some of their most recent projects.
Speaker: Terra Gillespie
Terra is the principal of Terra Etc, a professor at Seneca, and occasional journalist. A community-driven digital strategist + researcher helping movements, nonprofits, and coalitions do “all things digital” – from discovery to reporting – in ways that grow community power, not just conversions.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 Breakout groups
Code of Conduct:
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:
https://link.civictech.ca/chat
About Us:
Our weekly civic meetups bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data.
Interested in speaking at a future event, or know someone who'd be a great speaker? We'd love to hear from you:
https://link.civictech.ca/speaker-suggestions
Have a space that could host up to 80 civic-minded folks for an evening? Consider recommending your venue:
https://link.civictech.ca/venue-suggestions
Come and be part of it!
For more info:
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