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Jul 2022
30m 58s

Differential Privacy for the 2020 U.S. C...

Harvard Data Science Review
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While most Americans have heard of the U.S. Census and understand that it is designed to count every resident in the United States every 10 years, many may not realize that the Census’s role goes far beyond the allocation of seats in Congress.  For this episode, we invited the three co-editors of Harvard Data Science Review’s special issue on the U.S. Census ... Show More
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