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Natalie has dedicated nearly 20 years to advancing the public sector’s responsible use of data for protecting and improving individual's lives.

Following a 15 year career at the National Security Agency, Natalie co-founded and became COO of BrightHive, a collaborative data platform delivering a suite of smart data collection, integration, and governance products to social services providers for improved access and usability of social sector data. She founded the Community-driven Principles for Ethical Data Sharing (CPEDS)community of practice with over 800 active members focused on strengthening ethical practices in the data science community and as a Senior Policy Advisor under the Obama Administration, she founded the Data Cabinet - a federal data science community of practice with over 200 active members across more than 40 federal agencies.

Keynote Description:

The last decade (or more) has experienced a transformation of data to an action-oriented asset that can draw insights necessary to describe, detect, predict, and evaluate factors to help our communities and the individuals in them to thrive. We've also witnessed threats to these opportunities in the forms of breaches, misinformation, and other erosions of trust that make access to and use of data much more complicated. As a community, it is imperative to take an interdisciplinary approach to data use grounded in public-private collaboration and focused on building trust with the communities we seek to serve.

Moderator: Ken Steif

Presenters:

• Amy Hawn Nelson: "Understanding the Information Architecture for Civic Innovation, Research, and Evaluation"
• Ryan Mackenzie White: "Administrative Data Format Standardization for Efficient Analytics"
• Christian Hirsch: "International Network for Exchanging Experience on Statistical Handling of Granular Data (INEXDA)"
• Graham MacDonald: "Spark for Social Science"
• David Wu: "Protecting Patient Privacy in Genomic Analysis"

Moderator: Jennifer Madans

Presenters:

• Zachary H. Seeskin: "Constructing a Toolkit to Evaluate Quality of State and Local Administrative Data"
• Paul Wormeli: "The National Information Exchange Model and making data relevant"
• Sadaf Asrar: "A Systems Approach to International Education: How Administrative Data is Being used to Track the Progress of USAID's Education Strategy"
• Annette Christy: "Curation and Application of Statewide Data on Involuntary Assessment and Treatment in Behavioral Health"
• John Loft: "Electronic Health Records in Behavioral Research"

Presenters:

• Megan Davis: "Improving Administrative Data Quality at the Initial Stages of the Data Life Cycle"
• Sandra Clark: "Using Administrative Records in the American Community Survey"
• Kara Bonneau: "North Carolina Education Research Data Center"
• David Bleckley: "DataLumos and Beyond: ICPSR's Tool for Crowdsourced Sharing of Administrative and Other Government Data and Ways to Address its Limitations"
• Brian J. Goode: "Classifying Families and Households for VA Government Stakeholders using Existing Administrative Records"
• Misty Heggeness: "Linking Administrative Data across Federal Agencies: Outcome Evaluations for NIH Training Programs"
• Jordan Butz; Annie Streetman: "Predicting Spatial Risk of Opioid Overdoses in Providence, RI"
• Kathryn Shantz: "Using SNAP and TANF Administrative Records and the Transfer Income Model to Evaluate Poverty Measurement"
• Adela Luque: "The Nonemployer Statistics by Demographics: Leveraging Administrative Data to Meet Stakeholder Needs"
• Susan Jekielek: "Higher Education Administrative Data Elements: Potential for Analysis"
• Amy O'Hara: "'I Need That!' Interactive Session"

Moderator: Luiza Antoine

Presenters:

• Ian Crandell: "Record Linkage Reconciliation of Arlington Department of Human Services Administrative Data Using Potts Models"
• Dean M. Resnick: "Simulation Approach to Assess the Precision of Estimates Derived from Linking Survey and Administrative Records"
• Marc Roemer: "An assessment of using frequency weights for record linkage"
• Susan Hautaniemi Leonard: "Building a repository for record linkage"

Sponsored by the Stone Chair in Social Policy at the University of Pennsylvania