Building inclusive public analytics for government accountability.
The work to reinvigorate our democracy must begin at the local level where the public has the greatest control and barriers to collective action are the lowest. Civilytics is focusing on building the tools communities need to understand and deliberate about the performance of their local governments.
Civilytics Consulting is a data science consulting firm founded in 2016 by Dr. Jared E. Knowles. Civilytics has served clients at all levels of government in several policy areas including K-12 education, higher education, policing, and taxation. Civilytics Consulting focuses on building the capacity of its public institution partners to sustain analytic products after the initial work.
Tools to help put the power of the purse back in the hands of the people.
Using data to understand policing at your local college.
Measuring the impact of prison gerrymandering on Wisconsin’s legislature
A community by community look at policing across the United States.
The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) asked Civilytics to build an equity-focused tool to identify high schools …
Using GAMMs for flexible estimation
A Medium post about building police analytics in public.
Building police analytics in public.
Center for Policing Equity (CPE) Kaggle Competition
An open community for education data analysts.
Train your team in R with exactly the content you need, and none of the stuff you don’t.
The Wisconsin Dropout Early Warning System I co-developed the award-winning Wisconsin Dropout Early Warning System (DEWS) during my …