Manifesto for Data Practices

These principles, taken together, describe the most effective, ethical, and modern approach to data teamwork.

• Use data to improve life for our users, customers, organizations, and communities.
• Create reproducible and extensible work.
• Build teams with diverse ideas, backgrounds, and strengths.
• Prioritize the continuous collection and availability of discussions and metadata.
• Clearly identify the questions and objectives that drive each project and use to guide both planning and refinement.
• Be open to changing our methods and conclusions in response to new knowledge.
• Recognize and mitigate bias in ourselves and in the data we use.
• Present our work in ways that empower others to make better-informed decisions.
• Consider carefully the ethical implications of choices we make when using data, and the impacts of our work on individuals and society.
• Respect and invite fair criticism while promoting the identification and open discussion of errors, risks, and unintended consequences of our work.
• Protect the privacy and security of individuals represented in our data.
• Help others to understand the most useful and appropriate applications of data to solve real-world problems.

Join the movement at https://datapractices.org/manifesto/