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A person’s financial well-being is nuanced, encompassing many different metrics and situations. A single dataset rarely paints a complete picture of people’s financial lives. Therefore, building a holistic understanding of financial well-being often requires linking data from several disparate sources.
Could Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Large Language Models Help Make Local Zoning Codes Easier to Navigate?
- We ran a benchmarking exercise to evaluate how well large language models could answer zoning and permitting questions about Minneapolis’ local zoning code.
How We Used Routing Analysis to Map Access to Social Security Offices
- A step-by-step look at how we calculated drive time from the population-weighted centroid of every census tract to the closest Social Security office.
Five Lessons for Building Sustainable Data Systems to Support Policy Insights
- We offer a behind-the-scenes look at our approach and the lessons we’ve learned, with the aim of helping other organizations and leaders build the foundations for data systems that unlock insights and improve outcomes.
How We Integrated FormAssembly into Drupal and Curtailed Spam Submissions
- In this post, we detail the problems we encountered when integrating FormAssembly into Drupal and the step-by-step process we took to find a solution.
Building a User-Friendly Data Dashboard for the Tennessee Department of Human Services
- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Opportunity Act created pilot initiatives across Tennessee aimed at improving the economic mobility and self-sufficiency of eligible families across
Three Ways to Link Disparate Data Sources to Better Understand People’s Financial Well-Being
- A person’s financial well-being is nuanced, encompassing many different metrics and situations. A single dataset rarely paints a complete picture of people’s financial lives. Therefore, building a holistic understanding of financial well-being often requires linking data from several disparate sources.
