Data Is Plural

DIP+ is Data Is Plural’s membership program, launched in February 2024. Members receive access to a Discord-hosted community, featuring:

• Bonus material 📊 Satisfy your data-appetite with previews of upcoming newsletters, a feed of datasets that didn’t make the cut, exploratory analyses, and more.
• Lively discussions ✨ Meet your fellow data-spelunkers, get/give help, share your work, and chat by the virtual watercooler.
• Search tools 🔍 The Archive Buddy bot is always at the ready, helping you to trawl the newsletter’s archives with semantic search.
• Job boards 💼 Find and share postings for jobs that involve working closely with data.

Subscriptions cost $60/year, and include a 14-day free trial. Just click this button to get started:

If you prefer, you can also choose a monthly membership:

Institutional memberships

To purchase bulk memberships for your company, university, or other organization, get in touch via email: jsvine@gmail.com.

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Why Discord?

First off, my apologies if Discord is an inconvenient option for you. We all already have more accounts to remember and apps to download than we’d like. That said, Discord felt like the right fit for DIP+. It has solid community and moderation features, support for live video events, and full-archive search.

And why not Slack?

Its free tier, unfortunately, archives all messages older than 90 days. (I’m hoping that the DIP+ archives become a useful resource.) Its paid tiers, meanwhile, are geared more toward companies than communities; annual per-user fees alone would outstrip the cost of a DIP+ subscription.

Really don’t want to use Discord?

I understand. I’ll be looking for ways to make DIP+ material accessible outside the Discord ecosystem.