Differential Privacy, Race, and the 2020 U.S. Census

Source code and drafts for a final project for SOC 343: Sociology of Race and Racism, Reed College (Spring 2020). The project aims to study the racialized implications of the U.S. Census Bureau's decision to implement differentially private algorithms to privatize population counts for the 2020 U.S. Census.

• The src folder contains source code for downloading grab_data.R, tidying tidy.R, analyzing analyze.R, and visualizing visualize.R the data.
• While the entire source dataset isn't stored in this repository, a small subset, census_tidy_small.Rda, as well as some summary datasets (in /summaries/), are stored in the data folder.
• The paper folder contains TeX code for the final report—the main.tex file will compile the current paper draft.

The current paper draft is named Couch_DP_Census_Racism_2020.pdf.