Lauren Renaud

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Building a website of keywords

October 02, 2021 by Lauren Renaud

Project to extract keywords and then build webpages for each keyword

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October 02, 2021 /Lauren Renaud
Python, text

Matching activists and organizers for 1 on 1 conversations

July 16, 2021 by Lauren Renaud

Using R and Airtable to collect sign ups, create pairs, and send match emails for one-on-one conversations

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July 16, 2021 /Lauren Renaud
R, Shiny, API

Podcast: A possible fix to public assistance programs with FII’s Lauren Renaud

January 25, 2020 by Lauren Renaud

Joined Heinz Radio to talk about FII’s approach of trusting and investing in low income communities with direct, unrestricted cash.

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January 25, 2020 /Lauren Renaud /Source
policy

Shiny Tutorial: Capital Projects Explorer

January 25, 2020 by Lauren Renaud

Simple Shiny app built as a tutorial for a presentation at Heinz College exploring public data about capital investment projects in Pittsburgh, PA

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January 25, 2020 /Lauren Renaud /Source
R, Shiny, workshop demo

Classifying Extracts by Text & Attributes →

September 05, 2017 by Lauren Renaud

Multiple methods for classifying extract products, by text matching and machine learning.

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September 05, 2017 /Lauren Renaud
R, text, machine learning

Monitoring Product Quality in a Legal Marijuana Market →

March 22, 2017 by Lauren Renaud

Preliminary analysis of the testing regime in the legal Washington State marijuana market. Portion of capstone team work conducted primarily with Krista Kinnard.

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March 22, 2017 /Lauren Renaud
policy

Code Enforcement Reports

March 21, 2017 by Lauren Renaud

Automatically generating Code Enforcement reports for participating municipalities

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March 21, 2017 /Lauren Renaud
R, Shiny, reproducibility

Allegheny Crash Data Explorer

November 28, 2016 by Lauren Renaud

Web app in R Shiny allowing users to generate graphs and maps by filtering Allegheny County Crash dataset

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November 28, 2016 /Lauren Renaud /Source
R, Shiny

The Overlapping Police Departments of Allegheny County

June 28, 2016 by Lauren Renaud in maps

There are over 100 different police departments in Allegheny County. The sheer number, size, and their at times overlapping jurisdictions, complicate residents interactions with officers, relationship building, and accountablity efforts.

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June 28, 2016 /Lauren Renaud
maps, data viz, policy
maps

Mapping: Larimer Affordable Housing Planning

June 24, 2016 by Lauren Renaud

Ongoing project to map Larimer neighborhood for sustainable housing development plans.

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June 24, 2016 /Lauren Renaud
maps, policy

ArcMap: Mississippi Incarceration Rate & State Senate

May 16, 2016 by Lauren Renaud

Mississippi State Senate Districts, colored by the percentage of incarcerated people living in each district, with darker colors indicating higher percentages.

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May 16, 2016 /Lauren Renaud /Source
maps, policy

UK Road Safety Analysis

May 15, 2016 by Lauren Renaud

Data mining analysis of UK crash data using classification methods to determine what factors contribute to more severe crashes.

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May 15, 2016 /Lauren Renaud
R, machine learning

Tableau: Quick Twitter Map Before Bernie Rally

March 30, 2016 by Lauren Renaud

This map tracks mentions of @Burghers4Bernie, the local Sanders volunteer group, before and after Bernie Sander's announcement of a rally in Pittsburgh.

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March 30, 2016 /Lauren Renaud /Source
Tableau, data viz, maps

Analysis: Census Mapping Prison Populations

March 21, 2016 by Lauren Renaud

Visual exploration of prison population impact on census data

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March 21, 2016 /Lauren Renaud /Source
maps, policy, data viz

R: Gender Pay Gap Analysis

March 21, 2016 by Lauren Renaud

Statistical study of factors contributing to gender pay gap using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY).

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March 21, 2016 /Lauren Renaud

ArcGIS: Black White Incarceration Ratios

February 18, 2016 by Lauren Renaud

Ratio of Black incarceration rate and the white incarceration rate, by state. Dark green indicates a ratio higher than 10:1 -- that is, the Black incarceration rate is ten times that of whites.

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February 18, 2016 /Lauren Renaud
maps

Tableau: Healthy Ride PGH Bike Share Data

February 01, 2016 by Lauren Renaud

Quick analysis of Pittsburgh bike share trends by time and user type.

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February 01, 2016 /Lauren Renaud /Source
Tableau, data viz

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