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.

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.