Key Concepts Learned
- R basics practice in RStudio
- Types of algorithms
- Types of Census Data vs ACS data
- Blocks data is only available for Decennial Census data
- Block Group data has large margins of error
Coding Techniques
- Lab0 Practice of R fundamentals and packages
- Intro to tidycensus
- Census API Key: fe841b7ef0aa73d9579f0517bd1c8f26d33c789b
Questions & Challenges
- With more reps, I hope to become more independent in my coding instead of having to refer to demo code
Connections to Policy
- When policymakers explore the use of algorithms, they need to ask themselves
- what proxy are they using?
- what are the possible blind spots?
- what are the resultant harms as well as potential guardrails?
Reflection
- It was really interesting to hear about the 2020 Census Innovation of Differential Privacy (adding mathematical noise as anomalies to protect respondents’ privacy)