Assessing equity in the delivery of government services

  • Full presentation here
  • Central question: Did socioeconomic differences lead to differences in service?
    • Conclusion: Overall, yes, but this varied by service
  • Individual project in R
  • Data from SeeClickFix, the Census Bureau, and the IRS
  • Prep included joins, regex, and data balancing
  • Methods
    • Linear regression
    • Random forest regression
    • Logistic regression
    • K-means clustering
    • Random forest classification
    • GIS / mapping
    • Visual inspection of plots