Author: sudscmu
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The Affordable Housing Problem and Investor Behavior in Pittsburgh
By Nick Kharas, Claire Jacquillat, Erin Yanacek, and Maksim Khaitovich Our cross-functional team from Heinz College and Tepper is interested in looking at the affordable housing scene in Pittsburgh. This was part of a case competition we won, jointly organized by SUDS and the Data Analytics clubs at Heinz and Tepper. Eventually, the topic grew on us…
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Work Night: Valentine’s Day Edition
First Work Night of 2017! There are a few projects going on right now. Looking potential bias in sentencing in Allegheny County, partnering with Alliance for Police Accountability Demographic and spatial analysis to help the Boys and Girls Club of Western Pennsylvania re-organize their clubs for greater impact Processing and analyzing school discipline and suspension…
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Work Night: Transportation Camp Edition
SUDS is joining forces with Transportation Club and Traffic21’s Transportation Camp for this Work Night. The WPRDC has data on every vehicle crash in Allegheny County (and four other counties). This dataset includes 300+ variables on nearly every aspect of the crash. A crash gets in the dataset if the police were called, so it doesn’t…
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Internship opportunity: Boston Summer Analytics Fellowship
Boston Summer Data Fellowship opportunity — apply by Dec 30
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Work Night: Can You Beat Nate Silver?
SUDS is joining forces with the Heinz Policy and Politics Club to bring you a night of election prediction excitement. Think you can predict the 2016 Presidential Election? Find our Election Prediction Form here. Make a copy of it (online or offline). Follow the instructions on the bottom right portion of the sheet. And then email…
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