Tag: Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology

• Introducing the Data Science For Social Good 2022 Projects

  

  By: Louisa Gaylord and Emily Keller-O’Donnell On June 13th, the University of Washington’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program began with sixteen student fellows working on four project teams in collaboration with data scientists from the eScience Institute and project leads from academic institutions. Student fellows joined the program from colleges and universities…

• Data Science for Social Good: Exploring Geographic Factors of Seattle’s Minimum Wage Law

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell When the Seattle minimum wage law took effect in 2015, it dovetailed with an increase in housing prices as an influx of high-wage technology workers moved to the region. For an interdisciplinary team in the University of Washington Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program, this raises the question of whether some…

• Press release: Results from the UW Evictions Project

  

  February 21, 2019 A team of University of Washington researchers including eScience postdoctoral fellow Timothy A. Thomas, Ott Toomet, Ian Kennedy, and Alex Ramiller, has released a report titled “The state of evictions: results from the University of Washington Evictions Project” as a living website that will be frequently updated with their work: https://evictions.study. Washington…