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The Atlantic discusses our work on predicting police shootings

Pulse Lab Jakarta discussed our collaboration to tackle Traffic Safety in Jakarta

Our projects on Police Early Intervention Systems and Blight Prevention highlighted in "Stories from the World of Municipal Analytics"

GovTech Magazine article uses DSAPP's frameworks to highlight "How to do Data Science in Government"

Our work on bias and fairness audits for machine learning models is featured in Nature

Digital Content Media Outlet Which-50 Features Director Rayid Ghani on Auditing Government AI for Bias

From Government Technology Magazine: Former Associate Director Lauren Haynes on how to Scope Data Projects

Aequitas, our open-source Bias Audit Tool for auditing predictive risk-assessment tools for bias and fairness just launched. Try it out!

DSaPP Director Rayid Ghani, Aequitas Featured in Article on Bias and Data-Driven Policy in Philadelphia

Our Data-Driven Police Early Intervention System is live at Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department

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The Data Science and Public Policy Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, across the Machine Learning Department and the Heinz College of Public Policy, works to develop and further the use of ML/AI/data science in social good, and public policy research and practice. Our work includes educating current and future policymakers, researchers, and practitioners, working on ML/AI/data science projects with government, nonprofit, academic, and foundation partners, conducting new research, and developing new methods, open-source tools, and guides that support and extend the use of ML/AI/data science for public policy and social impact. Our team consists of data scientists and researchers from computer science, statistics, and social science backgrounds to bring in methods from all of these disciplines, software engineers to make sure our work becomes usable code and implemented, domain and policy experts to provide context and relevance, and project managers who help get things done.

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