Ellis Ackerman

Ellis Ackerman

Undergraduate Students

2019

Data+

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Data+ Durham Evictions Team Present Their Findings to City of Durham

October 11th, 2019

Over the summer of 2019, DataWorks NC sponsored a Duke Data+ project with the Rhodes Information Initiative to examine eviction data in Durham, and identify trends that could guide Durham City and County Government...

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Durham Evictions project

Durham Evictions

Data+, Social Sciences

2019

Ellis Ackerman (Math, NCSU), Rodrigo Araujo (Computer Science), and Samantha Miezio (Public Policy) spent ten weeks building tools to help understand the scope, cause, and effects of evictions in Durham County. Using evictions data recorded by the Durham County Sheriff’s Department and demographic data from the American Community Survey, the team investigated relationships between rent and...