Chief Information Officer, Urban Institute. I no longer post here, find me at https://xitter.cf/t.co/F2saoB0zRN.

Washington, D.C.
Joined April 2012
I've been here for over ten years, and have found this site immensely useful for my career, but it's gotten less and less useful over time in that regard. For those who want to keep following me, I'll be posting and following here: mastodon.social/@grahamimac.
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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
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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/h…
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I'm hiring a few data viz developers for my team at @urbaninstitute! 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/…
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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)
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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 @zhong_mingli @awunderground @alex_carther @brenogbraga @oriyagc4 @CathYconomy @CourtneyJeanneJ
Explore financial well-being at the local level by race and ethnicity—looking beyond income to include credit, debt, savings, assets, and wealth: urbn.is/3MgMLHV
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📢OMB is listening re updating the race/ethnicity data standards. Details: whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-…
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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 @GrahamIMac
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Less than a week away till #JSM2022! If you're interested in federal statistics, #DataPrivacy, and #PublicPolicy, check out this session I'm chairing!
Check out this #JSM2022 session I'm chairing on #DataPrivacy and #PublicPolicy, featuring @awunderground (@urbaninstitute), Ellen Galantucci (@FMC_gov), Joshua Snoke (@RANDCorporation), & Felipe Barrientos (@floridastate)! Sponsored by GSS, @srmsasa, & @amstat_sss. @AmstatNews
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Heads up, data scientists! Opportunity awaits you!
🚨 We are hiring! From very junior to mid level. If you know anybody with math, statistics, computer science or data science backgrounds, send them our way! usajobs.gov/Search/Results?j…
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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 @NickRHart for his tireless work in moving this forward.
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. / 🧵xitter.cf/DataCoalition/status/1…
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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. / 🧵xitter.cf/DataCoalition/status/1…
#BREAKING: Congress passed the CHIPS+ Act, which will establish a National Secure Data Service at @NSF, a long-standing legislative priority of Data Coalition members! We call on @POTUS to sign this crucial data modernization effort into law. datacoalition.org/congress-a…
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#BREAKING: Congress passed the CHIPS+ Act, which will establish a National Secure Data Service at @NSF, a long-standing legislative priority of Data Coalition members! We call on @POTUS to sign this crucial data modernization effort into law. datacoalition.org/congress-a…
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Can't wait to speak at @rstudio::conf(2022) in National Harbor, MD next week. I'm presenting on an R package the @urbaninstitute is developing for generating synthetic administrative data.
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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!! venturebeat.com/2022/06/29/t…
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A big shoutout to the fantastic and committed @HUDgov 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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And a big shoutout to the @IBMData 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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