Tag: Data Science for Social Good

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• Data Science for Social Good projects begin

  

  By Emily Keller-O’Donnell The eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program began June 11th with 15 fellows working on three project teams in collaboration with data scientists and project leads. A project with the University of Washington’s Industrial and Systems Engineering Department and Disaster Data Science Lab will focus on improving situational awareness after…

• Meet the 2018 Data Science for Social Good fellows

  

               The eScience Institute is pleased to welcome 15 talented student fellows to our summer 2018 Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program which kicks off Monday, June 11. The DSSG fellows hail from universities across the United States and represent a diversity of disciplines including public policy, linguistics, sociology, mathematics, and biology…

• Blog: My eScience experience

  

  By Kivan Polimis I heard about the eScience Institute in the fall of 2014, during my first quarter at the University of Washington (UW), and was immediately drawn in by the Institute’s inclusive approach. That mention was a bulletin for the spring 2015 Community Data Science Workshop (CDSW), an outreach program run by eScience and…

• Data Science for Social Good in the news

  

  By Robin Brooks The Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) final project presentations happened on Aug. 17, 2017, on the Seattle campus. The fellows presented on the results of their projects over a two-hour period to a crowd of more than 100 people, including UW affiliates, community members and members of the press. King 5…

• The ‘Equity Modeler’: examining just development in Seattle

  

  Project leads: Rachel Berney, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning and Gundula Proksch, associate professor, Department of Architecture Data scientist leads: Bernease Herman (primary) and Amanda Tan (secondary) DSSG fellows: Hillary Dawkins, Jacob Kovacs, Yahui Ma, Jacob Rich Project Summary: In the past years, Seattle has seen unprecedented population growth, record construction activity, and an increase in housing…

• Can traffic sensor data detect vehicle cruising?

  

  Project lead: Stephen Barham, data scientist, Seattle Department of Transportation Data scientist leads: Valentina Staneva (primary) and Vaughn Iverson (secondary) DSSG fellows: Brett Bejcek, Anamol Pundle, Orysya Stus, Michael Vlah Project Summary: Vehicles that have arrived at their destination but are driving around for a place to park, and for-hire and transportation network company vehicles that are queued in traffic,…

• Strengthening capacities, knowledge, and data sharing platforms for sustainable development

  

  Project leads: Matt Cooper, data manager, Vital Signs and Tabby Njunge, technical operations manager, Vital Signs Data scientist leads: Anthony Arendt (primary) and Joe Hellerstein (secondary) DSSG fellows: Cara Arizmendi, Mitchell Goist, Krista Jones, Robert Shaffer Project Summary: To meet the food security and nutrition challenges of today — with nearly one billion chronically hungry people worldwide — and tomorrow will…