4 papers
Pwned: How Often Are Americans' Online Accounts Breached?
Ken Cor, Gaurav Sood
News about massive online breaches is increasingly common. But there has been little good data on how exposed people are because of these breaches. We combine data from a large, re…
Street Sense: Learning from Google Street View
Suriyan Laohaprapanon, Kimberly Ortleb, Gaurav Sood
How good are the public services and the public infrastructure? Does their quality vary by income? These are vital questions---they shed light on how well the government is doing i…
Predicting Race and Ethnicity From the Sequence of Characters in a Name
Rajashekar Chintalapati, Suriyan Laohaprapanon, Gaurav Sood
To answer questions about racial inequality and fairness, we often need a way to infer race and ethnicity from names. One way to infer race and ethnicity from names is by relying o…
Fairly Random: The Impact of Winning the Toss on the Probability of Winning
Gaurav Sood, Derek Willis
In a competitive sport, every little thing matters. Yet, many sports leave some large levers out of the reach of the teams, and in the hands of fate. In cricket, world's second mos…