Deploying AI across the Research Life Cycle
A practical map of where AI tools can and cannot help across the full research life cycle — from question development to report writing — for both quantitative and qualitative work.
Some Thoughts on AI-Augmented Community Research at the Charlotte Urban Institute
Reflections on a year of using generative AI tools in community research — what works, what keeps me up at night about data governance, and the questions we need to answer as an institute before we go further.
Switching from ArcGIS to QGIS (and a bit of R too)
After years of defaulting to ArcGIS, a real project finally pushed me to give QGIS a serious try and I never went back. Here is what changed, what QGIS does better, and how R has quietly taken on a meaningful share of that workload too.
Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding: How It Works and Where We Use It
Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG) is a probabilistic method that estimates racial and ethnic group membership using last names and residential geography — a practical tool for working with administrative data that lacks race and ethnicity fields.
Using tidycensus to Analyze ACS PUMS Data
The American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) gives you individual-level Census records for custom cross-tabulations and analysis. This tutorial walks through using the tidycensus package to pull and analyze PUMS data for Mecklenburg County, NC.
RSCH 8140 - Multivariate Analytical Methods
College of Education, UNC Charlotte - Spring 2019
RSCH 8150 - Structural Equation Modeling
College of Education, UNC Charlotte - Spring 2018