BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:325@escience.washington.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260226T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260226T172000 DTSTAMP:20260220T181905Z URL:https://escience.washington.edu/events/uw-data-science-seminar-lisa-ma nzer/ SUMMARY:UW Data Science Seminar: Lisa Manzer and Sarah Brolliar DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a UW Data Science Seminar featuring UW Direc tor of the Center for Women’s Welfare Lisa Manzer and Research Coordinat or Sarah Brolliar on Thursday\, February 26th from 4:30 to 5:20 p.m. PT. T he seminar will be held in IEB G109.\n\n \;\n"From Excel to Reproducib le Pipelines: Scaling the Self-Sufficiency Standard to All 50 States"\nAbs tract: The Self-Sufficiency Standard (SSS) is a cost-of-living benchmark u sed by policymakers and community organizations across the United States. For more than two decades\, the Standard has been produced through a compl ex\, state-specific workflow built largely in Excel. As demand has grown —culminating in a planned 50-state release—the limitations of a spread sheet-based production system became clear. Through the UW Data Science &a mp\;amp\; AI Accelerator\, our team is redesigning the SSS production pipe line in R to support scalability\, reproducibility\, and collaborative dev elopment. This talk will describe the technical and organizational challen ges of transitioning a legacy\, high-stakes policy workflow into a modular \, version-controlled\, data-driven system. The presentation will highligh t both technical architecture and lessons learned in translating applied s ocial policy research into a modern data science workflow. We will also re flect on tradeoffs between flexibility and standardization when scaling da ta products intended for public use.\n\n \;\n\nSpeaker Bios: Lisa Manz er is Director of the Center for Women’s Welfare at the University of Wa shington. Committed to economic justice and supporting low-income families \, Lisa has dedicated over two decades to the development and implementati on of the Self-Sufficiency Standard. Lisa has collaborated with partners a cross the United States to produce comprehensive reports on the impact of housing\, child care\, health care\, guaranteed basic income\, and tax pol icies on working families.\n\nSarah Brolliar is a research coordinator for the Center for Women’s Welfare at the University of Washington who seek s to improve population quality of life. Prior to joining the Self-Suffici ency Standard team\, she served as a senior research coordinator with Univ ersity of Washington’s Department of Emergency Medicine\, covering proje cts focused on team leadership training in medical education and its impac t on patient outcomes. Sarah earned a Master of Public Health degree in He alth Systems and Population Health from the University of Washington\, and uses economic data and her training in the social determinants of health to advocate for low-income workers and families.\n\n\nThe 2025-2026 semina rs will be held in person\, and are free and open to the public.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://escience.washington.edu/wp-content/uploa ds/2026/02/Untitled-design.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR