Key Concepts Learned
- Setting up labs and learning to add data to lab.
- The significance of census data and things to watch out for like margin of error (MOE).
- Proxies are models that can help predict things like a good rental candidate, likelihood for a criminal to reoffend, etc.
Coding Techniques
- mutate()
- select()
- rename()
- (>%>)
Connections to Policy
- Algorithms play a role in predicting criminal justice, housing, finance, and healthcare decisions.
Reflection
- I want to learn more about how to adjust biases in the creation of proxy models.