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Computational methods for understanding the trajectories of children and families.
Every child who passes through a public system leaves a record. Across years and across populations, those records form a portrait of how institutions actually work, who they reach, where they fall short, and which patterns repeat.
The Data Lab develops the analytic methods that make this portrait visible, with attention to privacy, ethics, and the limits of what data alone can tell us. The work serves researchers, practitioners, and the communities whose lives the data describe.