The RAND Corporation's repositories
covid-19-reopening-california
Code for the paper: Reopening California: Seeking Robust, Non-Dominated COVID-19 Exit Strategies
firearm-hospitalizations
This Github repository includes statistical programs and data used to construct estimates of state firearm injury hospitalizations described in “Inpatient Hospitalizations for Firearm Injury: Estimating State-Level Rates from 2000 to 2016” by Rosanna Smart, Samuel Peterson, Terry L. Schell, Rose Kerber, and Andrew R. Morral. RAND Corporation: Santa Monica, TL-A243-3, February, 2021. https://www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TLA243-3.html
milliondigits
In 1955, RAND Corporation published a book of a “million random digits”; this code is a modern attempt to reproduce the analysis that was originally conducted on punchcards. This new analysis does not indicate that the original digits are nonrandom or flawed, but there are small differences between the original and this reproduction.
policy2vec
A repository used to create a large corpus of official US government policy documents and analyze them with NLP.
recidivism-risk
This repository contains the code that was used to inform the model described in Chapter 5 of "Providing Another Chance: Resetting Recidivism Risk in Criminal Background Checks"
value-of-env-surveillance
The Value of Environmental Surveillance for Pandemic Response paper repository
markov-decision-utilities
Julia implementation for some Markov chain processes, including defining and implementing transition matrix from a sparse text file using variables, finding steady states and absorption probabilities, and simulating random walks.
Quantifying-Built-Environment-Influence
This repository includes the code and data utilized for research to analyze associations between incidents of reported firearms violence and the distance to built environment features, accounting for neighborhood socio-economic status. The code leverages street networks to compare reported crime data with the outputs from a Monte Carlo Simulation using the Network Cross-K Function for Stochastic Spatial Events. Street network files include the locations for multiple features across four diverse metropolitan areas.
racial-wealth-gap
Overcoming Compound Racial Inequity Code Repository
Adults-Living-With-Children
This code supports a commentary that measures the labor force status of men and women age 18-55 since January 2020 based on whether the person has a child (defined as individual under 18 years old) in the household. We further divide individuals by how many children they live with (0, 1, 2, 3+, or 1+) and the age of the oldest child (0-1, 2-6, 7-12, 13-17). For each gender and children group, we count the number of individuals who are employed, unemployed, and not in the labor force. We then calculate the labor force participation rate, which is the number employed and unemployed over the total population.
algorithmic-equity-tool
In recent years, there has been a growing awareness that Machine Learning (ML) algorithms can reinforce or exacerbate human biases. The RAND Algorithmic Equity Tool was developed to help identify and mitigate biases in algorithms that assist in decision-making processes.
Artists-in-the-Pandemic
Using the CPS Basic Monthly Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS), we examine the vulnerability of individuals in the arts and cultural occupations (as defined by the National Endowment for the Arts) to the COVID-19 crisis.
autopsy-jar
A lightly modified version of Autopsy to be used as a library by spark-streaming-apps, part of the DFORC2 digital forensics platform.
COVID-19-Parenting-Through-the-Pandemic
The purpose of this project is to identify the population of families that will likely be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Families will be impacted by COVID-19 as a result of social distancing measures (e.g., closing non-essential businesses and school/childcare options) to prevent the spread of the virus.
HHH-Project-Labor-Agreements
The Effects of Project Labor Agreements on the Production of Affordable Housing: Evidence from Proposition HHH
image-to-cluster
A plugin which enables Autopsy to serve as the frontend of the DFORC2 digital forensics platform.
Laid-Off-More-Hired-Less
This code supports a commentary that measures the labor force status of black and white workers using CPS data from March 2020 to August 2020.
Leisure-Hospitality-Layoffs
Using the CPS Basic Monthly Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) from January to July, we count the number of workers in the leisure & hospitality industry in month t who are on temporary layoff and what employment state they are in month t+1. We also update a previous commentary on overall transitions to include new data from the July 2020 CPS.
network_vaccination
Contains code used to simulate simple epidemic models on network datasets.
optic-policy-wheels
Code used to create policy wheel data visualizations as seen in OPTIC publications
spark-streaming-apps
The Spark-driven backend of the DFORC2 digital forensics platform.
Temporary-Layoff-Transitions
Using the CPS Basic Monthly Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) from January to June, we count the number of workers in month t who are on temporary layoff and what employment state they are in month t+1.