US Department of Education’s DataLab: A Data Scientist’s Guide

An Insider’s Guide to Navigating and Sharing Educational Insights

Adam Ross Nelson
Towards AI
Published in
4 min readMay 23, 2023

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As a data scientist, one of the fascinating aspects of our work is that it is, by nature, replicable. This characteristic promotes transparency and trust, and fuels discussions that lead to deeper insights and understandings. With this in mind, I regularly make use of and share data from a valuable yet under-appreciated source, the US Department of Education’s DataLab. Here is a recent article I wrote using this data.

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