New Call for Proposals -- send us your ideas for analyzing the effects of existing or proposed policies!
Accepted essays will be published on the Learning Curve and authors receive a $2,500 honorarium:
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Chief Information Officer, Urban Institute. UC Berkeley, Vanderbilt Alum. All opinions are my own.
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Can't wait to speak at ::conf(2022) in National Harbor, MD next week. I'm presenting on an R package the is developing for generating synthetic administrative data.
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And a big shoutout to the team (Becky Duane is the greatest, Seth Dobrin, Vaisakhi Mishra, Gabriel Gilling, Joseph Gibli, Andre Violante, and many others) for building on our work, taking it to the next level, and committing to make the work open source.
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A big shoutout to the fantastic and committed team for the impetus behind this work and their continuing focus on improving data access and innovation to solve some of our toughest housing challenges. Some really impressive folks there.
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Big kudos to , whose work was the reason we were nominated, and to the many other projects her impressive Data Science team works on every day. Every day, they work hard helping to provide better data to decisionmakers trying to make the world a better place.
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I'm really proud to say that the Urban Institute has been selected as a finalist in this year's AI Innovation Awards in the "AI for Good" category, along with some real all-stars, such as DAIR and Change Machine, among others!!
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Lead the data & tech vision for our great #nnip partner in Miami as their Information and Data Technology Director
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Free lunch participation is no longer a useful proxy for student need in many schools, so what should researchers and policy analysts use instead?
Check out the first nationally comparable measure of student poverty at the school level:
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Very impressive RCT results here, and worlds colliding (!) as well, as we also have amazing folks on our Tech team here . Great folks, great program.
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Cool new job for data governance, management, and warehousing experts in NY state! dfs.ny.gov/system/files/d
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Wow. That is a mindbender... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_d
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Today in my general relativity class I got to talk about my favorite SUPER WEIRD COSMOLOGY FACT which is that if you have galaxies of the same size at different distances, beyond a certain distance, the farther away the galaxy is the BIGGER it appears in the sky (!!!)
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If you're looking for a concise, approachable (and even fun) primer on data privacy methods, regulations, and policy issues, wrote a great book for you. Highly recommend.
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Fresh Data@Urban!
We worked with the great folks at Pivotal Ventures, dedicated to increasing the number of Black, Latina and Native women in computing, to help them use our Education Data Portal to better track progress toward their goals in .
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Amen! Want to get into data science for the public good (like Urban?). Read this guide!
Only thing I'd add is that doing this helps you become a translator between the new data science skills and traditional research methods, so don't overlook those communications skills!
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After noodling on it for a decade, I wrote down my best advice for becoming a civic data scientist
My argument—focus on a policy domain, and let that drive your learning agenda—isn't radical, but it is entirely unrepresented in data science at large
hertie-school.org/en/digital-gov
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Thrilled that is launching the #YearOfEvidence and that the was able to partner with OSTP as part of this process. Learn more about the OSTP call to action here:
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Education Data Portal UPDATE!
We now have CCD data on schools and districts through 2020-21 (both directory and enrollment data). educationdata.urban.org/documentation/
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Neat new Head of Data Science job for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, for any health data science folks out there. phh.tbe.taleo.net/phh01/ats/care
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Now hiring! ☁️#CloudEngineer and 🧪#DataScientist positions on our team are accepting applications. If you'd like to use your skills to help nonprofits make an impact with #data, consider applying!
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I'm so excited to be able to announce that our new Drupal 9 site has launched! We're running a hybrid frontend. Drupal rendered with Stencil.js Web Components powering 95% of what you see. Very proud of the whole team that worked on this.
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Urban's breaks down the performance of OCR tools that convert PDFs to machine-readable text and tables in our benchmarking tests.
Read about which tools we think are best, cost efficiency, and tradeoffs on the latest Data@Urban: urban-institute.medium.com/choosing-the-r
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#AEFP2022 folks -- get a sneak peak of 's new nationally comparable measure of student poverty in schools at today's 8:15am panel "1.02 - Measurement and Equity"
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Had a lot of fun talking with , IBMs Chief AI Officer, a few weeks back, about our collaboration to improve data on neighborhood change.
If you need a break from all the heaviness, take a listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-
(Kudos to here who led Urban's work)
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🚨The is hiring a Data Science Analyst!🚨 This is a great opportunity for an early-career data scientist interested in public policy who loves #RStats and #Python.
urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Urban-Ca
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Big time, awesome job alert
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The @urbaninstitute is hiring a Data Science Analyst! This is a great opportunity for an early-career data scientist interested in public policy who loves #RStats and #Python.
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We. Are. Growing! Come join one of the best tech teams around (ok I'm super biased).
Salesforce Data Manager: urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Urban-Ca
Data Science Analyst: urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Urban-Ca
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Check out this #DataAtUrban blog that my colleague, , and I wrote! We describe the tools & resources we created with collaborators to help teach kids (3-12) about #data, #DataScience, and #DataVisualization!
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We (, , and our partners) recently did something really cool and unusual for Urban.
We've provided 5 "data stories" that educators can use and modify to help kids grades 3 to 12 learn data science and data viz. Check em out!
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When a #nonprofit aims to level up their data use and move beyond Excel, my colleague 's vast expertise building data systems comes into play. Spotlight shares how his experience in the private tech sector now supports nonprofit orgs bit.ly/3ItFK3D
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🧵 I'm excited to share a new project from me, , & others. The goal of the new 'Data4Kids' project is to help educators prepare children to be better data users, stewards, and consumers. | Data4Kids: Virtually Teaching Kids about Data Science
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. is hiring a data scientist to answer important policy questions with administrative data. This is great opportunity if you love the data science toolbox and the social sciences: urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Urban-Ca #rstats
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The Education Data Explorer -- the point-and-click interface of the Education Data Portal -- has a fresh new look and enhanced functionality.
A quick thread on how to use the new Explorer to access data on schools, districts, and colleges (1/N) educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer
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Really cool recent project from and : Materials for teachers of kids grades 3-12 for learning more about data, data science, and data visualization.
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Thread: Proud to announce the launch of another RFP to join the Catalyst Grant Program, our collaboration with ’s Justice Reform Initiative.
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🚨New #DataScientist Job!🚨
Come work with me ! You will do awesome work by bridging between cutting-edge technology and evidence-based policymaking. Cool work being done now! Hiring to work immediately/soon!
urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Urban-Ca
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Our Data@Urban top 5 posts of 2021, great reading going into the holiday!
Behind the scenes on graphing and charting best practices, data quality automation, visualizing vaccinations, and identifying single-family rentals.
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NEW: Lots of new data in the Education Data Portal, bringing various datasets up to date with what's available from NCES.
Updates are mostly to IPEDS data on colleges but also EDFacts data on schools/districts. educationdata.urban.org/documentation/
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🚨 Data Tool Alert 🚨
Today we released v2.0 of the Spatial Equity Data Tool, to quickly measure disparities in your city, county, state, AND national geographic data!
apps-staging.urban.org/features/equit
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Very excited to share the ✨new and improved✨ Spatial Equity Data Tool launched today! The tool allows users to upload data and quickly assess geographic and demographic disparities.
So what's new? A thread:
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There are so few people focused on applied differential privacy, and is changing that, through her own work and accessible materials, mentorship, and project work to expand the field.
Check out her new book, out in time for the holidays!😉
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