Month: July 2018
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Social Good Summer Blog, issue four
This summer series will highlight weekly blog posts from this year’s UW Data Science for Social Good Fellows. “Machine learning can improve disaster response after hurricanes, but not alone” by Tessa Schneider, 2018 Data Science for Social Good Fellow As fellows on the Disaster Damage Detection team (D-cubed) at the eScience Institute during the Data Science…
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Social Good Summer Blog, issue three
This summer series will highlight weekly blog posts from this year’s UW Data Science for Social Good Fellows. “Why data scientists should care about the social good” by Darius Irani, 2018 Data Science for Social Good Fellow In the age of big data, insights from traditional domain fields are inspiring solutions to seemingly unrelated problems. I…
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eScience Institute co-hosts computational social science conference
By SICSS-Seattle partner location organizers Connor Gilroy and Bernease Herman A satellite location of the Summer Institute for Computational Social Science (SICSS) was held June 18 – 22 at the eScience Institute in the WRF Data Science Studio. The purpose of the Summer Institute is to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and beginning faculty interested…
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Social Good Summer Blog, issue two
This summer series will highlight weekly blog posts from this year’s UW Data Science for Social Good Fellows. “Learning to code and coding to learn”*, by Rebeca de Buen Kalman, 2018 Data Science for Social Good Fellow This summer, I am a Student Fellow in the University of Washington’s Data Science for Social Good Program. I am working…
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Social Good Summer Blog, issue one
This summer series will highlight weekly blog posts from this year’s UW Data Science for Social Good Fellows. Scroll down to read posts by Kellie MacPhee and Joe Abbate. “Being right” by Kellie MacPhee, 2018 Data Science for Social Good Fellow In mathematics, right and wrong are clearly distinguishable. Sure, there are questions of style and…