Public Data Lab
We analyze government data to find where public interventions would do the most good. Each system ranks opportunities by recoverable impact — the gap between current performance and what comparable peers achieve.
Peer-frontier scoring. Rolling backtests. Plain-English explanations.
Systems
Education
Absenteeism Rescue Rankings
Early PreviewRank schools and districts by recoverable attendance days, not just raw chronic absenteeism
87,000+ schools ranked
4.2M recoverable attendance days identified
education
absenteeism
HS-to-College Pipeline
Early PreviewTrack where high school graduates go to college across every state, institution, and university system
7,000+ colleges and universities
50 states + territories tracked
education
college