by Riya Sirdeshmukh In today’s world, data is power, making organizations—private and public—rely heavily on a data-driven decision-making approach, which involves collecting, extracting patterns and insights from data, and using those insights to inform decision-making. Without data, organizations are more likely to make decisions based on intuition and gut feeling that allow bias and noise to …
By Athena Owirodu Education is a catalyst for change. Since the summer of 2020, multiple academic institutions have drawn their attention to a moment that confronted America’s norms around racism: the death of George Floyd. During a time of intense racial tensions and an ongoing pandemic, these institutions wrestled with their placement in the middle …
by Jack Murer Following the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent national protests, the response by individuals and institutions made the pervasive racial hierarchy in the United States plainly apparent. The display of inhumane brutality shown in Mr. Floyd’s murder, combined with detailed video documentation and the despairing regularity of similar events forced yet …
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By Jackson Makl. On May 25st, 2020 George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, who after handcuffing Floyd, pinned him to the ground with the weight of his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes. Three fellow police officers looked on and did nothing even as Floyd …
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