DataWorks: Adult Mid-Salary Apprinticeship for Data Sector

DataWorks is a unique data services provider that recruits people from economically disadvantaged neighborhoods and underrepresented groups in computing to train and employ them as Data Wranglers and for task such as data annotation. Using DataWorks as a research platform, we seek to understand how individuals from minoritized communities learn data skills, tools and processes in context to gain data literacy and empower their local communities. Our approach is to use co-design methods to develop novel and contextually based tools/processes for culturally situated data work.