UnCommon Core | The Power of a Data Driven Approach to Urban Policy
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Colm O’Muircheartaigh, Dean and Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy; Senior Fellow in the National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
Charlie Catlett, Director, Urban Center for Computation and Data; Senior Fellow, Computation Institute; Senior Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
Jens Ludwig, McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy in the School of Social Service Administration and the Harris School of Public Policy; Director, University of Chicago Crime Lab
Stephen W. Raudenbush, Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology, the College, and the Harris School of Public Policy Studies; Chair, Committee on Education
More than half of the world’s population lives in urban centers. How do we create policies and programs that improve the lives of residents and optimize the operation of cities? Join our panel from across campus to explore the power of data to inform urban policy decisions, how new modeling and computational methods can improve urban decision making, and examples of data being used to support effective programs.
