AE 01: Case study in ML: Property assessment in Cook County

Application exercise
Modified

October 10, 2024

Note

This application exercise is completed in class and submitted via a worksheet.

Discussion questions

  1. Who is the sponsor for the Cook County Assessor’s Office project? Who is the client? Impacted users? What might be their competing goals/interests?
  2. Pick a choice that the office made in developing their assessment model. What other choices could they have made? What are the trade-offs of this choice? What might be the implications of this choice?
  3. Identify one type of bias that you think would impact the property assessment model. How might you evaluate this bias? What steps could you take to mitigate it?
  4. Who benefits from transparency in the Cook County model? If Tompkins County were to adopt a similar level of transparency, what might be the benefits and drawbacks? What issues would still remain?