US-RCN Second Annual Workshop

June 11, 2015

Millenium Park Room, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

AGENDA:
0900-0915 Welcome and Overview of US-RCN
0915-0945 Keynote: “Poverty and Organizational Density” Mario Small,  Dean, Division of the Social Sciences, John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and of the College.  University of Chicago
0945-1100 Short Talks  (see below)
1100-1200 Organize into Breakouts (see below)
1200-1300 Lunch
1300-1500 Breakouts continue
1500-1600 Breakout Reports

Short Talks:

  1. Identifying the factors that support the employment of low-income adult using integrated public sector data
  2. Developing a database that tracks children from kindergarten through post-secondary education and employment–focus on data quality
  3. 3. New Approach to Evaluation of Large-Scale Health Interventions using Agent-Based Modeling: the CommunityRx Example
  4. Update and Overview of the UChicago Data Science for Social Good summer program 2014
  5. Exploring Open Civic Data Through Time and Space
  6. Update on City of Chicago Data Analytics – toward Proactive Policy
  7. Spatial Analytics for Urban Sciences
  8. The Array of Things

Breakouts:

  1. Neighborhood/Community Vitality
  2. Water, Green Spaces, Air Quality
  3. Access and Mobility
  4. Health and Wellbeing
  5. Data Analytics Tools and Infrastructure

Workshop Summary (pdf)