Chris Georges

Predictive algorithms are everywhere these days, as are concerns that they embed & perpetuate discrimination In a new (short!) working paper with David Arnold & Will Dobbie, we develop + apply new quasi-experimental tools to address these... See more

A great new dataset on R&D's impact on state economies was released today: New Mexico gets the highest share of its state GDP from R&D thanks to the Los Alamos & Sandia National Laboratories, but California makes up the highest share of national R&D output at 30%! https://t.co/Ca6uMary1u

MAS members have benefitted from a wonderful set of experiences over the past month that illuminate the complicated ways that the city has been shaped over the decades. The Department of Design and Construction hosted a hard-hat tour of the Eastside Coastal Resilience Project recently. The ECRP is the result of the lessons learned from Superstorm... See more

In online advertising, regret minimization is used to optimize ad placement and bidding strategies to improve performance over time. Here are some specific applications:

1. **Bid Optimization**: Advertisers use regret minimization to adjust their bids dynamically across different websites or platforms. By minimizing regret, they can ensure that... See more

💫Today we launch the Segregation Explorer!💫 Visualize and download school segregation data for every state, county, metro area, commuting zone, geo school district, and local educational agency in the US since 1991. https://t.co/pZ2FOVqDyZ https://t.co/5hPPnAfKKJ

So, what did I learn from the 2024 election? I don't mean to be flippant, but if you're going to be a convicted felon with a history of sexually assaulting women who incited a mob to violently prevent the peaceful transfer of power, you praise Hitler and you call for the termination of the Constitution and you still want to be elected president to... See more

In 1894 at Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., Douglass delivered the last great speech of his career. Titled “The Lessons of the Hour,” it was his attempt to make sense of the rise of Jim Crow and the violent retrenchment of the era. I want to share a little of the speech with you because I think it is worthwhile... See more