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A person’s financial well-being is nuanced, encompassing many different metrics and situations. A single dataset rarely paints a complete picture of people’s financial lives. Therefore, building a holistic understanding of financial well-being often requires linking data from several disparate sources.
Analyzing the Privacy and Utility Tradeoff for Synthetic Datasets with Imbalanced Demographic…
- In recent years, synthetic data — or statistically representative pseudo records usually based on statistical models — have gained popularity as a way to increase data privacy while preserving the
The Evolution of the Urban Institute’s Design Library
- Imagine launching multiple websites in a year, each requiring replicating design elements like buttons, icons, and cards with images, titles, summaries, and dates across different pages. Each of these
Exploring AI: How Urban Is Piloting Guidelines around Using AI in Our Research and Policy Work
- Everyone I talk to these days is thinking about artificial intelligence (AI). My peers at research organizations, nonprofits, government agencies, and philanthropies are hungry to learn what others
Using Datawrapper to Make Custom Data Visualization More Efficient
- The Urban Institute data visualization team creates a wide array of visual products, including static charts for reports and briefs, interactive standalone graphs for the Urban Wire blog, and larger
Enhanced Survey Response Monitoring with the Qualtrics API
- Researchers at Urban and elsewhere in policy, academia, and industry use the Qualtrics survey platform to build and deploy sophisticated web-based surveys without writing any code. Advanced users can
Modeling the Effects of Public Transit Investments on Equity in Access to Employment in Washington
- The $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (PDF) offers an exciting opportunity for localities to make critically needed transit investments to close gaps in access to transit for people
