Tag: Jennie Romich

• 2022 DSSG Teams Present Their Final Project Results

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell Student fellows at the University of Washington Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program presented the results of their 10-week summer projects on August 17th. The fellows conducted their work on four interdisciplinary teams, working with project leads and data scientists.  The DSSG program at the eScience Institute brings together students from universities around the country with data…

• 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…

• Research Team Examines the Impacts of Seattle’s Minimum Wage Ordinance on Household-Level Poverty

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell Research about the relationship between poverty and the minimum wage in Seattle has often focused on examining the economic circumstances of individual workers. One of the projects of the Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program at the University of Washington is expanding this lens to create data that views workers…

• Data Science for Social Good Teams Present Their Project Results

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell On August 18th, student fellows at the eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program presented the results of their 10-week summer projects on the topics of fairness in computational redistricting, and the impacts of Seattle’s minimum wage ordinance in relation to residential displacement and commuting patterns. The student fellows conducted…

• 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…

• Data Science for Social Good: Exploring Geographic Factors of Seattle’s Minimum Wage Law

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell When the Seattle minimum wage law took effect in 2015, it dovetailed with an increase in housing prices as an influx of high-wage technology workers moved to the region. For an interdisciplinary team in the University of Washington Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program, this raises the question of whether some…