BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Zarina Dhillon DTSTART:20251124T223000Z DTEND:20251124T233000Z DTSTAMP:20260506T225516Z UID:MathandDemoc/28 DESCRIPTION:Title: Evaluating Methods Used to Quantify Racial Segregation\nby Zarin a Dhillon as part of NYU CDS Math and Democracy Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nRac ial segregation has long been a problem in communities across the United S tates\, and in understanding how it is quantified we enhance our ability t o offer proposals for eradication. Many metrics have been developed for me asurement\, but none fully capture the nuances of this complicated issue: This work provides an overview of four mathematical approaches that have b een developed to study segregation\, explains how they function\, and comp ares/contrasts their effectiveness in various situations in order to deter mine which best succeeds. An additional focus lies in a case study of Los Angeles (LA) County. It was found that attempts to further standardize out puts erases crucial data\, and compressing this issue into one score is no t representative of its complexity. This suggests that future exploration should attempt to study segregation more comprehensively rather than disti lling an incredibly complicated and important issue into a single statisti c.\n\nZarina Dhillon is earning her Masters in Applied Statistics at NYU S teinhart with a concentration on data science for social impact. Zarina is also a Parke Research Fellow in the Brennan Center for Justice's Democrac y Program\, where she focuses on voter turnout and redistricting. She earn ed her Bachelors in Mathematics from Claremont McKenna College as a proud transfer student from Santa Barbara City College\, where she earned nine a ssociates degrees spanning economics\, philosophy\, communications\, psych ology\, and mathematics.\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/MathandDemoc/28/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR