4 papers
Hidden Errors in Big Data: The Case of Property Records
Evelyn Smith, Emma Harvey, Jacob Goldin +1
Big data are the foundation for an increasing share of academic research and AI models deployed in both the public and private sectors, prompting substantial growth over time in re…
Tradeoffs are Domain Dependent: Improving Accuracy and Fairness in Property Tax Assessments
Evelyn Smith, Emma Harvey, Christopher Berry +2
Algorithmic fairness research often assumes a tradeoff between fairness and accuracy. Yet this tradeoff may not be universal. We test this assumption in the context of U.S. propert…
Near-Exponential Savings for Mean Estimation with Active Learning
Julian M. Morimoto, Jacob Goldin, Daniel E. Ho
We study the problem of efficiently estimating the mean of a -class random variable, , using a limited number of labels, , in settings where the analyst has access to auxi…
Monotone Ecological Inference
Hadi Elzayn, Jacob Goldin, Cameron Guage +2
We study monotone ecological inference, a partial identification approach to ecological inference. The approach exploits information about one or both of the following conditional…