I'm Ajjit. I'm currently the Lead Data Scientist for Housing Equity at the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. Previously I worked as a Data Scientist at the Urban Institute (@UrbanInstitute).
- I'm a big fan of maps 🗺️, open source geospatial data 📈, baseketball 🏀 and dogs 🐶
- I love building big data tools, thinking about spatial analysis, and teaching others about programming 👨🏾💻!
- How to reach me: ajjit123 at gmail [dot] com
- Pronouns: he/him/his
Some examples of my work are below:
Online Tool: Spatial Equity Data Tool. Nov 18, 2021
Online Tool: Where Low-Income Jobs Are Being Lost to COVID-19: The places and industries most at risk. Aug 6, 2021
Online Tool: Where to Prioritize Emergency Rental Assistance to Keep Renters in Their Homes: Mapping neighborhoods where low-income renters face greater risks of housing instability and homelessness to inform an equitable COVID-19 response. May 14, 2021
Online Tool: Tracking COVID-19’s Effects by Race and Ethnicity: Questionnaire Two: Updates on People’s Health, Housing, and Livelihoods since August 19, 2020. Aug 5, 2022
Paper: Ethics and Empathy in Using Imputation to Disaggregate Data for Racial Equity, A Case Study Imputing Credit Bureau Data. July 21, 2021
Paper: Using Differential Privacy to Advance Rural Economic Development: Applying Data Privacy and Confidentiality Methods to Industry Employment Data
Paper: Towards an Open Data Bias Assessment Tool. Mar 5, 2019
Public Comment: Comment Letter on CEQ’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool Beta Version. Apr 5, 2022
Blog: We need better tools to measure bias in data that drive decisionmaking. Urban Wire, Mar 5, 2019
Blog: To Advance Racial Equity, Releasing Disaggregated Data while Protecting Privacy Will Be Key. Urban Wire, Mar 2, 2021
Blog: Choosing a Geocoder for the Urban Institute. Data@Urban, Mar 10, 2020
Invited Presentation. Ethics of Imputation Case Study, Berkeley Computational Social Science Fall Fo-rum, Sep 2021
Invited Presentation. How to Move to Equitable Data Practice: Principles, Methods, and Tools, Association for Public Data Users Conference, July 2021 Invited Presentation. Introducing a Spatial Equity Data Tool, Code for America Annual Conference, Code for America, March 2020
Invited Presentation. Monthly updates on Jobs being lost to COVID-19, Data Science Conference on COVID-19, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, Aug 2020
Invited Presentation. Using the Emergency Rental Assistance Index, National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, Sep 2020
Invited Presentation. Introducing a Spatial Equity Data Tool, Good Tech Fest Annual Conference, Good Tech Fest, May 2020
Invited Presentation. Differential Privacy applied to the QCEW, BLS Disclosure Limitation Board, December 2020