3 papers
cs.CY2022
Mutual Information Scoring: Increasing Interpretability in Categorical Clustering Tasks with Applications to Child Welfare Data
Pranav Sankhe, Seventy F. Hall, Melanie Sage +3
Youth in the American foster care system are significantly more likely than their peers to face a number of negative life outcomes, from homelessness to incarceration. Administrati…
cs.CY2022
A Data-Driven Simulation of the New York State Foster Care System
Yuhao Du, Stefania Ionescu, Melanie Sage +1
We introduce an analytic pipeline to model and simulate youth trajectories through the New York state foster care system. Our goal in doing so is to forecast how proposed intervent…
cs.SI2021
Promises and Pitfalls of a New Early Warning System for Gentrification in Buffalo, NY
Jan Voltaire Vergara, Maria Y. Rodriguez, Ehren Dohler +4
Gentrification and its resultant displacement are one of the many "wicked problems" of social policy. The study of gentrification and displacement spans half a century, concerns a…