The product of too much SimCity and watching too much West Wing. Managing Director of Analytics @KPMG; former Chicago Chief Data Officer; @iadeptofed
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🚨 Big news! MetroLab Network is officially joining FAS (@scientistsorg)!
We’re scaling our mission and teaming up with an incredible group of policy wonks to deepen our impact across cities and universities.
🔗 New website → fas.org/issue/metrolab/
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🔑New appointments are now live on our site: getcitykey.com
In case you missed it, the Office of the City Clerk is excited to announce the launch of our new CityKey appointment system! Moving forward, you must schedule an appointment for a CityKey event.
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JOB ALERT🚨: We're hiring a new Program Director for State and Local Research -- please head over to the link below to learn more about the role and apply. Looking forward to seeing your applications come through! bit.ly/45KsOl9
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👀 We're hiring! Are you interested in local and state research and policy? Would you like to join a small but mighty team? We're currently looking for a Program Director for State and Local Research. More info in the link below bit.ly/45KsOl9
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If you are innovating with GenAI to expand access to public data, we want to know about it and hear your input about what possibilities could be unblocked if public data was published in more AI-ready ways. commerce.gov/news/blog/2024/… (9/9)
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That all the other state govts (and the CBO) don’t rip off Washington State’s intervention cost-effectiveness database is nuts. @Results4America
WA State has a great website listing benefit-cost ratio of all sorts of govt investments. Some have such astronomical econ benefits for every $1 of cost it’s criminal Congress doesn’t fully fund every BCR+ program. Just tracking them would be a good start. wsipp.wa.gov/BenefitCost
This is an interesting project, but seems to conflate Neighborhoods with Community Areas. Neighborhoods have been and are fluid. There is not an official neighborhood map. Community Areas are very structured based on an old study, but have found to be the bones of wayfinding.
I did a @ChicagoMag Q&A with the @UChicago professor leading this project:
A New Survey Asks Chicagoans: What's Your Neighborhood? chicagomag.com/city-life/a-n…
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The City of Chicago is hiring a new Director of Digital Equity. Sitting in the Mayor’s Office, the Digital Equity Director oversees all broadband and digital equity initiatives. More information and instructions to apply: chicago.gov/content/dam/city…
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Led by the co-chairs named earlier this month, the members of MetroLab Network’s GenAI for Local Governments Task Force will work together to create a comprehensive resource of guidance on the use of AI technology. govtech.com/artificial-intel…
Terrific to see this proposal to undo such a silly, self-inflicted screw-up. No one should look at technology and think physical assets as a close analogy. It should be thought of as a way to improve services to people, both inside city departments and to the public.
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Sometimes I think Chicago is the last great American city. Affordable, walkable neighborhoods, effective public transportation, and you can see Buddy Guy for a low cover charge. This would be like a $100 night in San Francisco, where you pay $4k to live in a shoebox
New redesigned format for economic releases in the works from BLS with tables presented in downloadable .xlsx files rather than on the webpage in case anybody is interested in leaving feedback: bls.gov/beta/redesigned-news…
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Announcing the #OSTPOpenScienceChallenge: We're inviting everyone to share your stories about how you've advanced equitable #openscience. Learn more and submit: challenge.gov/?challenge=ost…
I wrote a paper on how STEM is defined differently across academia and it makes a substantial impact on how you evaluate the success of STEM programs. So I, like, get full pass here, right?
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In a new @BrookingsGov report, I am proposing a comprehensive approach to AI regulation
It is my answer to "should we pass the EU AI Act in the US?" and "do we need an FDA for algorithms?"
Instead, the Critical Algorithmic System Classification, or CASC brookings.edu/articles/a-com…
