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 …
Dr. Jared Knowles is the president of Civilytics Consulting, LLC. He founded Civilytics in 2016 to pursue his passion of providing high-quality public performance metrics for government services. He also provides an array of consulting services including statistical computing, research design, and training in data analysis and R programming. He has expertise in machine learning, multilevel modeling, and other statistical analysis methods.
He formerly served as a research analyst with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. There he led the design and deployment of the Wisconsin Dropout Early Warning System (DEWS), a machine learning predictive framework available to all schools serving students grades 5-9 in the state. He also led several internal analysis efforts culminating in presenting findings to agency leadership, legislators, school leaders, teachers, and the public. He completed his PhD in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015. He was also a fellow in the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences, an Institute of Education Sciences pre-doctoral training program at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
He is also an avid photographer and loves to travel. Check out his personal site to see his photography and learn more about his work.
PhD in Political Science, 2015
University of Wisconsin-Madison
MA in Political Science, 2009
University of Wisconsin-Madison
BA in Politics and Government, 2008
Pacific University
BA in German Studies, 2008
Pacific University