Category: Socio-demographic Disparities

• Exploring new understandings of the cost of living at a basic needs level using the Self-Sufficiency Standard database

  

  Project leads: Annie Kucklick, Research Coordinator, and Lisa Manzer, Director, Center for Women’s Welfare, University of Washington School of Social Work Data scientist: Bryna Hazelton DSSG fellows: Azizakhon Mirsaidova, Priyana Patel, Cheng Ren, Hector Sosa. Get the participant bios here. Project Summary: The best-known measure of income adequacy, the Official Poverty Measure, (OPM) is too low with flawed and…

• Tracking family and intergenerational poverty using administrative data

  

  Project leads: Jennie Romich, Professor of Social Welfare at the UW School of Social Work and Faculty Director of the West Coast Poverty Center Data scientist: Jessica Godwin DSSG fellows: Zhaowen Guo, Ihsan Kahveci, Betelhem Aklilu Muno, Eliot Stanton Participant bios available here. Project Summary: This project will examine whether the Seattle $15 minimum wage policy reduced poverty or affected intergenerational economic…

• Geography, Equity, and the Seattle $15 Minimum Wage Ordinance

  

  Project leads: Jennie Romich, Professor of Social Welfare at the UW School of Social Work and Faculty Director of the West Coast Poverty Center Data scientists: Jose Hernandez and Valentina Staneva DSSG fellows: Lamar Foster, Delaney Glass, Christopher Salazar, Mahader Tamene Participant bios available here. Project Summary: This project examines the minimum wage as a solution to income inequality – and one potential…

• Understanding Congestion Pricing, Travel Behavior, and Price Sensitivity

  

  Project lead: Mark Hallenbeck, Director, Washington State Transportation Center, University of Washington Data science lead: Vaughn Iverson DSSG fellows: Shirley Leung, Cory McCartan, Christopher (CJ) Robinson, Kiana Roshan Zamir Project Summary: Traffic congestion is a worldwide issue with environmental, health, and economic impacts.  We cannot build our way out of it. Funding is limited and land for building new roads…

• Developing an Algorithmic Equity Toolkit with Government, Advocates, and Community Partners

  

  Project lead: Mike Katell, PhD Candidate, UW Information School Data science lead: Bernease Herman Faculty Advisor: Peaks Krafft, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute Community Engagement Lead: Meg Young, PhD Candidate, University of Washington Information School DSSG fellows: Corinne Bintz, Vivian Guetler, Daniella Raz, Aaron Tam Project Summary: In partnership with ACLU of Washington, fellows will create an Algorithmic Equity…

• Access to Out-of-School Opportunities and Student Outcomes

  

  Project lead: Sivan Tuchman, Research Analyst, University of Washington, Bothell, Center on Reinventing Public Education Data scientist leads: Jose Hernandez and Karen Lavi DSSG fellows: Joe Abbate, Sreekanth Krishnaiah, Kellie MacPhee, Andrew Taylor, Haowen Zheng Project Summary: For students living in disadvantaged communities, accessing organizations or institutions that provide enrichment programs for the arts, sports, and tutoring, or social services such as counseling, meals,…

• Seattle Mobility Index Project

  

  Project leads: Stephen Barham, Data Scientist, and Alex Hagenah, Data Librarian, Seattle Department of Transportation Data scientist leads: Joseph Hellerstein and Ryan Maas DSSG fellows: Rebeca de Buen Kalman, Darius Irani, Hyeon Jeong Kim, Amandalynne Paullada, Woosub Shin Project Summary: The Seattle Mobility Index Project measures transportation mode choice, affordability, and reliability at 450 Census Block Groups in Seattle and predicts mode share (the percentage…

• The ‘Equity Modeler’: examining just development in Seattle

  

  Project leads: Rachel Berney, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning and Gundula Proksch, associate professor, Department of Architecture Data scientist leads: Bernease Herman (primary) and Amanda Tan (secondary) DSSG fellows: Hillary Dawkins, Jacob Kovacs, Yahui Ma, Jacob Rich Project Summary: In the past years, Seattle has seen unprecedented population growth, record construction activity, and an increase in housing…

• CrowdSensing Census: A heterogenous-based tools for estimating poverty

  

  Project Lead: Afra Mashhadi, Bell Labs, Nokia Data Scientist Leads: Ariel Rokem (primary) and Jake VanderPlas (secondary) DSSG Fellows: Rachael Dottle, Myeong Lee, Imam Subkhan & Carlos Espino Project Goals: Household surveys and censuses, periodically conducted by National Statistical Institutes and the like, collect information describing the social and economic well being of a nation, as well as…

• Predictors of Permanent Housing for Homeless Families

  

  Project Leads: Neil Roche and Anjana Sundaram, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation DSSG Fellows: Joan Wang, Jason Portenoy, Fabliha Ibnat, Chris Suberlak ALVA Students: Cameron Holt, Xilalit Sanchez eScience Data Scientist Mentors: Ariel Rokem, Bryna Hazelton The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, together with Building Changes, have partnered with King, Pierce and Snohomish counties to make homelessness in these counties rare, brief and…