Talks

Predicting Project Delays at the Inter-American Development Bank Using R

• 2020 Government and Public Sector R Conference

Abstract: How can we use R to predict project delays in international development? I’ll walk through this applied example from the Inter-American Development Bank. Our pipeline of R scripts sources and cleans data from internal and external sources, then generates predictions using a decision tree (random forest) algorithm with confidence intervals (using the infinitesimal jackknife approach). The tool displays results in real time to end users in an interactive online viz.

How Are Ideas Spread at Your Organization? Analyze Its Citation Network!

• 2019 DC R Conference

The Portrait Perspective

• November 2017, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Innovative Talks