{"id":1196,"date":"2018-01-26T19:30:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T00:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2018-01-26T19:30:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T00:30:58","slug":"using-data-to-help-migrants-find-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2018\/01\/26\/using-data-to-help-migrants-find-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Data to Help Migrants Find Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<em>Pacific Standard<\/em> website has published a fascinating story about <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/economics\/using-data-to-solve-the-migrant-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">using data to help migrants find work<\/a>. In the article the authors of a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/359\/6373\/325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Science<\/i>\u00a0magazine article<\/a> are interviewed; they discuss their study of applying an artificial intelligence algorithm to analyze historical data to predict where to best settle refugees upon their arrival in a new country. The authors note,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Refugee policies, like immigration policies generally, are dominated by ideology rather than sound evidence. We haven&#8217;t seen a lot of innovations in this space. Cash assistance, language instruction, training programs: These turn out to be very expensive and difficult to scale.\u00a0The nice thing is, from a policy perspective, [using artificial intelligence algorithms] doesn&#8217;t really cost you anything more. It\u2019s just a smarter way of doing the allocation. Rather than doing it in a haphazard, quasi-random fashion, as we&#8217;re doing it right now, we might as well do it in a more data-driven way, where we send people to the places they&#8217;re more likely to succeed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Pacific Standard website has published a fascinating story about using data to help migrants find work. In the article the authors of a\u00a0Science\u00a0magazine article are interviewed; they discuss their study of applying an artificial intelligence algorithm to analyze historical data to predict where to best settle refugees upon their arrival in a new country. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[14,3504,2051,193],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-race","tag-social-structure","tag-socialization","tag-stratification"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}