Abstract: The workshop will provide an introduction to differential privacy methods, including key vocabulary (what is the privacy budget?, will share examples from censuses, and will discuss privacy considerations when using blended data.

Bio: Matthew Graham is the Lead of the Development and Applications Innovation Group within the LEHD Program in the Center for Economic Studies at the U.S. Census Bureau. Over the last decade he has lead teams to develop and implement new confidentiality protection systems, new public-use datasets such as the LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) that use those privacy mechanisms, and web-based data dissemination/exploration tools such as OnTheMap, which was a winner in 2010 of U.S. Department of Commerce’s Gold Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement. Matthew has an MA in Urban Planning from UCLA as well as an MS in Mechanical Engineering and a BS in Physics from MIT.