The @ACLUKansas credits data analysis led by Profs. Dean Knox (Wharton) and @JonMummolo (@Princeton) with helping win its court case against the Kansas Highway Patrol over unconstitutional treatment of out-of-state drivers.

Analytics at Wharton explains: whr.tn/3Zyi2gl

What role can data analytics play in social justice?

Prof. @Dean_C_Knox and team's research that proved key in the ACLU of Kansas winning a recent unconstitutional policing court case leads this month's edition of our Insights newsletter. #TheWhartonWay whr.tn/3tg8F8O

One of the best things I did at the last APSA was attending the DAG pre-conference workshop. It was so useful that I thought the lectures could've been recorded and shared, just like AEA does. Huge thanks to Dean Knox, Carlos Cinelli, Cyrus Samii, Adam Glyn, and Guilherme Jardim Duarte!

We are excited to announce a pre-APSA short course called “Introduction to
Causal Graphs (Directed Acyclic Graphs, DAGs)” on Wednesday, August 30 from
9:00am-5:00pm.More information available here connect.apsanet.org/apsa2023/pre-c…>.

CANDOR corpus is now available! It took years of hard work, but we hope it will be useful for researchers from many fields interested in conversation and social interaction. Dataset available for download (link in manuscript). Please share it widely.
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Submit your work to the Workshop on AI & Analytics for Social Good (due 3/15), to be held @ UMD on 5/5! Learn about privacy, policing, & hiring bias from experts alessandro acquisti , Rachel Cummings , Nick Freeman, Dean Knox , & Danielle Li!
rhsmith.umd.edu/departments/de…

How can a team of academics make an impact on the DOJ or a police department?

@Dean_C_Knox explains how building relationships with public organizations allows researchers to analyze data and make recommendations, such as to how DOJ investigates police departments.

Our second Beyond Business series with Dean Erika James is in 2 weeks! Hear from esteemed The Wharton School faculty Hamsa Bastani, Dean Knox, and Duncan Watts about how analytics, AI, and machine learning can drive social good. Register here:

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Join me and three more The Wharton School professors Dec. 14 at the next #BeyondBusiness , on how analytics can drive social good: whr.tn/3GXbi4a

Their research uses data to address:
▪️Human trafficking – @HamsaBastani
▪️Policing reform – @Dean_C_Knox
▪️Media bias – @DuncanJWatts

We're hiring! Looking for an early career data scientist/engineer to work with Hamsa Bastani @MarimanRachel & me on high-impact social data analytics (e.g. policing, human trafficking, media polarization, supply chain ethics).

Presenting 'autobounds' at #ACIC2022 Berkeley Computing, Data Science, and Society. INPUT: your causal question, assumptions & data (however incomplete or mismeasured). OUTPUT: tightest possible bounds on the quantity of interest... automatically! Tomorrow 5/24 at 9:15am, room 2.

In our paper on racial bias in police use of force, we derived bounds on best/worst case levels of bias given assumptions/data. Months of tedious algebra. Our new algo finds same result in 10secs. Dean Knox Guilherme Jardim Duarte Will Lowe @nsfinkelstein arxiv.org/abs/2109.13471

So gratifying to see Jonathan Mummolo & Dean Knox as readers of this report. Your methodological work was a foundational input to how we approached the analysis

Recognizing how bias compounds is key to measuring it: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

'OIG's analysis… assess[es] disparities across multiple phases of police-civilian encounters… reflects the fact that analyzing only [one stage] may understate… disparities… in earlier phases'

When we can't directly observe key concepts, it's now very common to run regressions on ML-estimated proxies. It's super effective! We show how to write key measurement assumptions w/ DAGs, then easily read off whether you have valid null tests & estimates of effect direction.