Tag: Data Science for Social Good

• Data Science for Social Good team analyzes peer support data to understand ‘helpfulness’

  

  By Emily Keller-O’Donnell August 14, 2019 Young adults who face mental health struggles often turn to social media for peer support, leaving a large data trail in a field that has been traditionally documented through qualitative work. A team at the eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program at the University of Washington…

• Team develops ‘Algorithmic Equity Toolkit’ at Data Science for Social Good program

  

  By Emily Keller-O’Donnell August 7, 2019 Community advocates who are concerned about the impacts of surveillance technologies and algorithmic decision systems (ADSs) will have a new set of examination tools soon. A team at the eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program at the University of Washington (UW) is developing a package of…

• Data Science for Social Good projects begin

  

  By Emily Keller-O’Donnell July 9, 2019 On June 17th, the Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program began with 15 fellows working on four project teams in collaboration with data science leads from the eScience Institute and project leads from academia and government. Student fellows, including five international students, joined the program from colleges and universities…

• Data Science for Social Good program results

  

  By Emily Keller-O’Donnell The fourth annual Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program at the eScience Institute culminated on August 17th with final presentations from three interdisciplinary teams. The 15 DSSG Student Fellows – representing fields from public policy and sociology to biology, statistics and electrical engineering – presented their findings based on 10 weeks…

• Social Good Summer Blog, issue seven

  

  This summer series will highlight weekly blog posts from this year’s UW Data Science for Social Good Fellows. “Parallel worlds of pangolin conservation and Data Science for Social Good” by Hyeon Jeong Kim, Data Science for Social Good Fellow This summer I am working as a fellow in the Data Science for Social Good Program (DSSG)…

• Access to Out-of-School Opportunities and Student Outcomes

  

  Project lead: Sivan Tuchman, Research Analyst, University of Washington, Bothell, Center on Reinventing Public Education Data scientist leads: Jose Hernandez and Karen Lavi DSSG fellows: Joe Abbate, Sreekanth Krishnaiah, Kellie MacPhee, Andrew Taylor, Haowen Zheng Project Summary: For students living in disadvantaged communities, accessing organizations or institutions that provide enrichment programs for the arts, sports, and tutoring, or social services such as counseling, meals,…

• Seattle Mobility Index Project

  

  Project leads: Stephen Barham, Data Scientist, and Alex Hagenah, Data Librarian, Seattle Department of Transportation Data scientist leads: Joseph Hellerstein and Ryan Maas DSSG fellows: Rebeca de Buen Kalman, Darius Irani, Hyeon Jeong Kim, Amandalynne Paullada, Woosub Shin Project Summary: The Seattle Mobility Index Project measures transportation mode choice, affordability, and reliability at 450 Census Block Groups in Seattle and predicts mode share (the percentage…

• Automatic Damage Annotation on Post-Hurricane Satellite Imagery

  

  Project lead: Youngjun Choe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Industrial & Systems Engineering Data scientist lead: Valentina Staneva DSSG fellows: Sean Andrew Chen, Andrew Escay, Christopher Haberland, Tessa Schneider, An Yan Project Summary: When a hurricane makes landfall, situational awareness is one of the most critical needs emergency managers face before they can respond to the event. To assess the situation and damage,…

• Social Good Summer Blog, issue six

  

  This summer series will highlight weekly blog posts from this year’s UW Data Science for Social Good Fellows. “Getting ground truth data through geospatial analysis” by Sean Chen, 2018 Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) Fellow Introduction It’s a much bandied about statistic, but it’s an important one: more than half of humanity’s 7 billion and…

• Social Good Summer Blog, issue five

  

  This summer series will highlight weekly blog posts from this year’s UW Data Science for Social Good Fellows. “From the classroom to the real-world: using data science to approach inequality” by Haowen Zheng, 2018 Data Science for Social Good Fellow I am a student fellow in this year’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program…