Geocoding Evictions During the Housing Crisis

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Abstract: In this talk we will analyze evictions in Kansas City during the housing crisis. We will be using financial and demographic data to determine who performed the most evictions and where?

Prerequisites:

• Basic knowledge of Python, PostGIS and Spark is recommended but not required.

• Familiarity with Dataiku is recommended but no prior experience is needed. Free downloads available here (https://www.dataiku.com/dss/trynow/).

• Watch The Big Short (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596363/) (Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling)

Speaker: Jed Dougherty (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jediv/) is a data scientist at Dataiku. Before coming to Dataiku he worked in the fields of event detection, recommendation systems, and survival analysis in the fields of breaking news and child welfare.

Pizza and beer will be provided!