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Data Points Episode 50 - City Health Dashboard at NYU
This week we talk with Dr. Marc Gourevitch and Dr. Jessica Athens, professors at the NYU School of Medicine, Department of Population Health. They’ll talk to us about the city health dashboard they’ve been developing for cities across the US. The City Health Dashboard is a web resource that enables community leaders and advocates for health, education, housing, and other policy areas in four pilot cities to easily see where they stand on 26 key measures of health and drivers of health.
Data Points Podcast Episode 39 - Weapons of Math Destruction - GovEx
Algorithms are complicated. Yet they are used all the time in our daily lives, including by governments, to perform basic functions. From determining what web page advertisements we see to timing traffic lights, algorithms are often working in the background in ways we overlook. In this episode, Eric and Sharon chat with Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction, about how using algorithms can have unintended consequences.
Data Points Podcast Episode 9 - Open Source Kindness
“Open source kindness.” That’s how OpenReferral talks about how it helps people connect to food pantries, medical clinics, mental healthcare, youth services, computer refurbishment programs, et cetera. OpenReferral, a “non-organization” community of practice, is the latest advancement in a century-old field helping people access human services.
Data Points Podcast Episode 7 - Applied Math and City Data in Baltimore
“The problems and the data are alike in city work and astronomy,” according to this episode’s guest, Tamas Budavari, Assistant Professor of Applied Math and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University. Tamas is working to apply the same solutions he built to answer how the universe was formed to understand how housing becomes vacant and blighted in Baltimore* City. Connecting Baltimore to his previous research was a bit of serendipity, according to Tamas.
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