Week 2 Notes

Published

September 15, 2025

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()
  • (>%>)

Questions & Challenges

  • To pipe or not to pipe

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.