What is the WDC?
How can we cultivate a community at Wellesley that is focused on accessible engagement with campus data? What role does data play in improving the representation of all members of the Wellesley community? The Wellesley Data Collective (WDC) aims to better understand these questions with applied analytics, community-centered inquiry, and outreach with impact.
We want to apply our visualization and data science skills to improve transparency and support informed activism, policy, and inquiry surrounding issues relating to Wellesley College. We also place a strong emphasis on working ethically with institutional data. This means:
- Uniting Wellesley students interested in applying our community engagement, public writing, computer science, and data visualization skills to ask questions of data spanning campus policing, student housing, academic trajectories, etc. while respecting the privacy of parties involved and maintaining their anonymity.
- Filling in the gaps and creating new datasets where they do not already exist.
- Collaborating with student organizations and administrative offices to communicate our findings to the people of Wellesley College.
For more sources of inspiration, check out D’Ignazio & Klein’s Data Feminism, the Harvard Open Data Project, or take Eni’s CS 234 class!
Founders
Bella Virgilio (Media Arts & Sciences ’20) and Shreya Parjan (Math & CS ’21) founded the Wellesley Data Collective in Spring 2020 as part of a CS 350 Independent Study with Professor Eni Mustafaraj.
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