Introduction and Setup

Urban Institute

• Non-partisan and not-for-profit social and economic policy research institution headquartered in Washington, DC

Claire McKay Bowen

Personal website

Roles

• Principal Research Associate at the Urban Institute
• Adjunct Professor at Stonehill College
• Member of the Census Scientific Advisory Committee
• Advisory Board Member of the Future of Privacy Forums

Projects

• Formal privacy/differential privacy evaluation on tax data (code) (arXiv)
• Formal privacy/differential privacy evaluation on NIST Data Challenge (code) (Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality)
• Urban style formatting in LaTeX (code)

Aaron R. Williams

Roles

• Senior Data Scientist at the Urban Institute
• Adjunct Professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University
• American Statistical Association Traveling Course Instructor

Projects

• Synthetic data generation (rstudio::conf(2022) talk about library(tidysynthesis))
• Formal privacy/differential privacy evaluation (code) (arXiv)
• Simulations of Opt-In Disclosure Protections
• Urban Institute R Users Group

Questions for You

• What types of analyses do you develop?
• What is your programming experience?
• What are you most interested to learn today?

Day Structure

1. Introduction to Data Privacy
2. Synthetic Data
3. Formal Privacy and Differential Privacy

R Concepts