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The AI Credit Rule: Give Credit to AI the Way You Would Give Credit to a Human

By Darren Vengroff March 24, 2024General

Recently, Xavi Amatriain asked whether AI has a place in acdemic writing. In his opinion, AI can be of great help to those writing in a non-native language (usually English).…

Impact Chart Analysis 101

By Darren Vengroff February 7, 2024Data, Impact Charts

I have written about impact charts before (see here, here, and the OG post here), but I have neglected to give them a proper introduction. What are they, exactly? What…

Working with Non-Nested Census Geographies in Censusdis

By Darren Vengroff December 14, 2023Data, Maps, Under the Hood, Visualizations

Introduction Most U.S. Census data sets are keyed by geography. Concepts like population, median income, and gender, race, or age ranges of residents are only meaningful when we tie them…

Censusdis was Ready for the ACS 2022 Data Before it was Even Released

By Darren Vengroff December 7, 2023Data, Under the Hood

This morning I woke up to an email from the U.S. Census Bureau announcing that the American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year data for 2018-2022 was just released. This is big…

Command-Line censusdis for Plotting Maps

By Darren Vengroff December 6, 2023Announcements, Data, Maps, Under the Hood, Visualizations

In an earlier post entitled Command-Line censusdis for Data Pipelines and One-Time Analysis, we discussed how the new command-line interface (CLI) to censusdis can be used to download and manipulate…

Command-Line censusdis for Data Pipelines and One-Time Analysis

By Darren Vengroff December 2, 2023Announcements, Data, Under the Hood

censusdis is a package for discovering, loading, analyzing, and computing diversity, integration, and segregation metrics to U.S. Census demographic data. Recently, I found myself writing a number of small scripts…

The Impact of Demographics and Income on Eviction Rates

By Darren Vengroff November 2, 2023Impact Charts, Visualizations

Website: evl.datapinions.com Introduction In an earlier post, we introduced the concept of impact charts and showed some examples illustrating the impact of race, ethnicity and income on eviction filing rates…

An Introduction to Impact Charts

By Darren Vengroff October 30, 2023Data, Impact Charts, Visualizations

Impact charts are a tool for visually interpreting the relationships between variables. In this post, we will look at some impact charts generated from a combination of eviction filing data…

Adding the DHC-A Data Set to censusdis

By Darren Vengroff September 23, 2023Data

One of the design goals of the censusdis project is that as new data sets are added or existing data sets and variables change from year to year, the system…

Using Interpretable Machine Learning to Analyze Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Home Values

By Darren Vengroff July 23, 2023Data, Visualizations

Introduction There have been a number of well-publicized cases in recent years in which homes belonging to Black families were appraised at substantially lower value than those owned by white…