Jessica Kelly

Director, Research and Web Technology. Urban Institute. Opinions are my own.

[🔎Julia Evans🔍 @b0rk]

debugging strategy: write a message asking for help

[Jessica Kelly @coder_jess]

Excellent work by my fantastic colleagues!

[Alena Stern @AlenaStern]

Truly honored be included among this incredible group of finalists!!🤩

[Jessica Kelly @coder_jess]

@GeoJoeK Happy to help, friend!

[Jessica Kelly @coder_jess]

@GeoJoeK Just Google, used "regex match foreign characters"

[Jessica Kelly @coder_jess]

@GeoJoeK Have you tried the last answer on this thread? https://t.co/ePV4I44u58

[Jessica Kelly @coder_jess]

The best part is, we are hiring!! If you are an early-career Drupal developer come and join us! https://t.co/7tWPt9CaW6

[Jessica Kelly @coder_jess]

Exciting news today, after lots of hard work, a beta version of a new https://t.co/YIZZTHeuSV has launched. Check it out at https://t.co/uTXp1fKlAJ

[Jessica Kelly @coder_jess]

This amazing work is the result of a collaboration between our Communications team, the Tech & Data team and partners at phase2.

[Jessica Kelly @coder_jess]

Meeting Free (mostly) Tuesday and Slack is down? What do I do with myself?!

[Amal Hussein @nomadtechie]

💯. As a lead I learned its not my job to be the smartest person in the room anymore. Its about enabling others to be their best. This meant I'm working on the super messy least sexy but extremely important foundational work, while more junior folks shine/glide bc of my pre-work.

[Alena Stern @AlenaStern]

Very excited to share the ✨new and improved✨ @urbaninstitute Spatial Equity Data Tool launched today! The tool allows users to upload data and quickly assess geographic and demographic disparities.

So what's new? A thread:

https://t.co/PFJVWZl9gH

[Ajjit Narayanan @Ajjit10]

🚨 Data Tool Alert 🚨

Today we released v2.0 of the Spatial Equity Data Tool, to quickly measure disparities in your city, county, state, AND national geographic data!

https://t.co/rHJnd6iDsO

[Jessica Kelly @coder_jess]

The TI-84 plus CE has Python 😮 (Adding to my holiday shopping list) https://t.co/ZXfmfGOHYk

[Urban Institute @urbaninstitute]

Laura Wheaton: "These are really large reductions in poverty—the largest short-term reductions we’ve seen." (via @JasonDeParle) https://t.co/BVbK1P09hm

[Jessica Kelly @coder_jess]

Getting ready for morning meetings on my porch before it gets too hot out.

[Jessica Kelly @coder_jess]

My most favorite projects combine old and new. Check out the post by my colleague who shared how he created an archive of old publications https://t.co/weJTLFaeyt

[Aaron R. Williams @awunderground]

.@urbaninstitute is hiring a Data Engineering Analyst! This is a great position if you are interested in social and economic policy and love #RStats and #Python.
https://t.co/tAds7eh8mE

[Jessica Kelly @coder_jess]

@ClaireMKBowen :partyparrot:

[Jessica Kelly @coder_jess]

This microsimulation model was what I first worked on when I started my career at Urban in 2001. Happy to answer questions! Drop me a line.

[Jessica Kelly @coder_jess]

Do you want to work on projects like the brief below👇? The modeling team is hiring! https://t.co/ioTGpN6mLt

[Stephen Zuckerman @zuckermans]

Estimates from @urbaninstitute show that the #AmericanRescuePlan reduces child poverty by 50% - from 13.7% to 6.5%- in 2021. https://t.co/mDntiytkpD