Case studies

Vicki Lancaster, Stephanie Shipp, Sallie Keller, Henning Mortveit, Samarth Swarup, Aaron Schroeder, and Dawen Xie
University of Virginia, Biocomplexity Institute

Statistics

AI scientist and researcher Francis Osei investigates what happens when Agentic AI systems are used in real projects, where trust and reproducibility are not optional.

Aug 12, 2025

Defining Purposes and Uses to Support the Development of Statistical Products in a 21^st Century Census Curated Data Enterprise Environment

Learn about researchers’ plans to develop the Curated Data Enterprise through a use case research program.

Nov 22, 2024

Translating the Curated Data Model into Practice - Climate resiliency of skilled nursing facilities

How does the Curated Data Enterprise Framework work? Take a look at our demonstration use case on the resilience of skilled nursing facilities.

Nov 19, 2024

Advancing Data Science in Official Statistics – What is the Curated Data Enterprise?

The US Census Bureau faces the challenge of addressing complex questions requiring novel datasets and sources to answer. Official statistical agencies and public- and…

Sallie Keller, Stephanie Shipp, Vicki Lancaster, and Joseph Salvo
University of Virginia

Nov 8, 2024

Advancing Data Science in Official Statistics – The Policy Problem

In this article, we introduce a new approach for the US Census Bureau to produce statistical products using survey, administrative, procedural and opportunity data. This is…

Sallie Keller, Stephanie Shipp, Vicki Lancaster and Joseph Salvo
University of Virginia

Nov 1, 2024

Forecasting the Health Needs of a Changing Population

Luke Shaw (BNSSG ICB), Rich Wood (BNSSG ICB, University of Bath), Christos Vasilakis (University of Bath), Zehra Onen Dumlu (University of Bath)

Forecasting

Taking NHS usage of the 1 million people in and around Bristol, then combining with population forecasts into a modelling framework has created a sophisticated but…

May 8, 2024

Deduplicating and linking large datasets using Splink

Crime and justice

Data quality

Data linkage

Robin Linacre introduces an open source tool, developed by the UK Ministry of Justice, which uses probabilistic record linkage to improve the quality of justice system data.

Robin Linacre

Nov 22, 2023

Learning from failure: ‘Red flags’ in body-worn camera data

When body-worn cameras were rolled out to juvenile correctional officers in Texas in 2018, senior leaders hoped proactive analysis of camera metadata could be used to…

Noah Wright

Nov 16, 2023

Food for Thought: The value of competitions for confidential data

Steven Bedrick, Ophir Frieder, Julia Lane, and Philip Resnik

The Food for Thought Challenge attracted new eyes from computer science and data science to think about how to address a critical real-world data linkage problem. And, in…

Food for Thought: The importance of the Purchase to Plate Suite

Andrea Carlson and Thea Palmer Zimmerman

Andrea Carlson and Thea Palmer Zimmerman outline the policy issues driving the development of the Purchase to Plate Suite of data products and why linking retail scanner…

Food for Thought: Competition and challenge design

Zheyuan Zhang and Uyen Le

From structure to setup, to metrics, results, and lessons learned, Zheyuan Zhang and Uyen Le give an overview of the design of the Food for Thought competition.

Food for Thought: Second place winners – DeepFFTLink

Yang Wu, Aishwarya Budhkar, Kai Zhang, Xuhong Zhang, and Xiaozhong Liu

PhD students and faculty from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Indiana University Bloomington describe their solution to the Food for Thought challenge: an ensemble of…

The Food for Thought Challenge: Using AI to support evidence-based food and nutrition policy

Brian Tarran and Julia Lane

Brian Tarran and Julia Lane introduce a collection of articles telling the story of the Food for Thought Challenge, which sought to use machine learning and natural language…

Food for Thought: First place winners – Auburn Big Data

Alex Knipper, Naman Bansal, Jingyi Zheng, Wenying Li, and Shubhra Kanti Karmaker

Auburn University’s team of PhD students and faculty describe their winning solution to the Food for Thought challenge: random forest classifiers.

Food for Thought: Third place winners – Loyola Marymount

Yifan Hu and Mandy Korpusik

Yifan Hu and Mandy Korpusik of Loyola Marymount University describe their solution to the Food for Thought challenge: binary classification with pre-trained BERT.