Can't wait to speak at RStudio::conf(2022) in National Harbor, MD next week. I'm presenting on an R package the Urban Institute is developing for generating synthetic administrative data.

#BREAKING: Congress passed the CHIPS+ Act, which will establish a National Secure Data Service at U.S. National Science Foundation, a long-standing legislative priority of Data Coalition members! We call on President Donald J. Trump to sign this crucial data modernization effort into law. datacoalition.org/congress-autho…

Buried in the details of large bipartisan omnibus bills approved by Congress there are always monumental changes -- here's the story of one: the creation of the National Secure Data Service in the #CHIPSAndScienceAct. / 🧵x.com/DataCoalition/…

This is really impressive work from a broad group of people, bipartisan and non-controversial and will allow the country to use data, with strict privacy protections, to innovate and improve. Among everyone, a big kudos to Nick Hart, PhD for his tireless work in moving this forward.

Heads up, data scientists! Opportunity awaits you!

Less than a week away till #JSM2022! If you're interested in federal statistics, #DataPrivacy, and #PublicPolicy, check out this session I'm chairing!

Exciting news: @PJMFnd partner @UrbanInstitute won the AI for Good category of VentureBeat's AI Innovation Awards in recognition of AI that protects human lives, operates to fight injustice & bias, improve equality & better serve humanity bit.ly/3zDrsdH @[email protected]

📢OMB is listening re updating the race/ethnicity data standards. Details: whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-r…

Check out our financial health and wealth dashboard for local evidence and strategies to manage daily finances, be resilient to economic shocks, and pursue opportunities. Shout out to Mingli Zhong Aaron R. Williams @alex_carther @brenogbraga Oriya Cohen Catherine Harvey Courtney Jones

A new Data@Urban. Why consistency and clarity in data privacy terminology is important, why we're not there yet and the field should work on it, and what we're doing here at Urban to contribute. urban-institute.medium.com/considerations…

Hey folks, seeing as many of the favorite people I follow are moving to Mastodon (and Twitter rarely recommends their tweets to me anymore anyway), please let me know if you've moved there, and if so your handle. I'd love to follow you there. (find me there at the same handle)

I'm hiring a few data viz developers for my team at Urban Institute! This could be a great fit for folks interested in informing the policy debate through data, storytelling and design and working at the intersection of research, comms and data science urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Urban-Ca…

Some pretty innovative use of Tech by Urban teams to create a scorecard that allows project developers, advocates, and others to better assess the potential social impact of local development projects. Our newest Data@Urban: urban-institute.medium.com/how-we-adapted…

We updated our paper on evaluating #DifferentialPrivacy methods for releasing summary statistics and regression estimates with their associated errors and new methodological adaptations. #DataPrivacy #Statistics #DataScience arxiv.org/abs/2110.12055