A project I did two (maybe three??) years ago using data that I made sure to explain was sometimes unreliable because we won’t pay for the good dataset and are using a free dataset that is known to have issues never got any follow up from anyone who saw it, mostly because they did not care. Then at some point they realized other people cared and they shared it with outside important groups, without understanding it or providing the full context. And guess what, it’s caused issues and questions and I have not gotten a chance to work on other pressing things because every hour there’s a new question that I covered the first time around and could have been addressed earlier if you’d just looped me in from the jump. Instead I’m coming into email threads weeks late or being asked to rerun data or update slides for someone in a whole other part of campus and like. Give me my promotion already.

















