- Series
- ACO Student Seminar
- Time
- Friday, September 6, 2019 - 1:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 005
- Speaker
- Samantha Petti – CS, Georgia Tech – spetti@gatech.edu – http://people.math.gatech.edu/~spetti3/
- Organizer
- He Guo
For the first time in 2020, the US Census Bureau will apply a differentially private algorithm before publicly releasing decennial census data. Recently, the Bureau publicly released their code and end-to-end tests on the 1940 census data at various privacylevels. We will outline the DP algorithm (which is still being developed) and discuss the accuracy of these end-to-end tests. In particular, we focus on the bias and variance of the reported population counts. Finally, we discuss the choices the Bureau has yet to make that will affect the balance between privacy and accuracy. This talk is based on joint work with Abraham Flaxman.