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Gavel for Justice

Society and Social Welfare

This initiative focuses on creating and assessing new methods that harness data to positively impact society. Selected projects include:
  • Developing interpretable statistical models to aid judicial pretrial release decisions.
  • Implementing predictive machine learning techniques to allocate beneficial services to children and families with high need, and to avoid burdening low-need families with unnecessary services.
  • Improving the reuse of open data and measuring the demand for open government data.

Grants and Projects

Algorithms, Data, and Public Policy Technology Lab

The NYU Algorithms, Data, and Public Policy Technology (ADAPPT) Lab aims to use technology to help government address urgent challenges.

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