U.S. Broadband Coverage Data Set: A Differentially Private Data Release
Abstract
Broadband connectivity is a key metric in today's economy. In an era of rapid expansion of the digital economy, it directly impacts GDP. Furthermore, with the COVID-19 guidelines of social distancing, internet connectivity became necessary to everyday activities such as work, learning, and staying in touch with family and friends. This paper introduces a publicly available U.S. Broadband Coverage data set that reports broadband coverage percentages at a zip code-level. We also explain how we used differential privacy to guarantee that the privacy of individual households is preserved. Our data set also contains error ranges estimates, providing information on the expected error introduced by differential privacy per zip code. We describe our error range calculation method and show that this additional data metric does not induce any privacy losses.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2103.14035,
title = {U.S. Broadband Coverage Data Set: A Differentially Private Data Release},
author = {Mayana Pereira and Allen Kim and Joshua Allen and Kevin White and Juan Lavista Ferres and Rahul Dodhia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.14035},
year = {2021}
}