Tag: DSSG

• Data Science for Social Good Fellows Present Their Project Results

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell This year, two interdisciplinary teams at the eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program tackled timely issues, conducting projects to identify disinformation articles about the coronavirus and detect minority vote dilution resulting from geographic boundary setting in state, city, county and school board districts. On August 19th, the DSSG student…

• DSSG Project Supports Equity in Voting District Boundaries

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell As states, counties, cities and school boards across the country prepare to re-draw their voting districts in 2021, a software package that is being updated through the Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program will help to ensure equal representation among constituents. Voting district boundaries are re-drawn after each Census to account for…

• DSSG Team’s Model Will ID Online Coronavirus Disinformation

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell While informative news articles about COVID-19 play a key role in fighting the pandemic, a range of erroneous blogs and articles with fake virus cures, political propaganda and conspiracy theories are also circulating online. A new open source tool being developed as a project in the eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social…

• Algorithmic Equity Toolkit

  

  By: Mike Katell We are extremely proud to introduce the Algorithmic Equity Toolkit, planned and co-designed as a project of the Data Science for Social Good program (DSSG) at the eScience Institute in the summer of 2019. The Algorithmic Equity Toolkit, or ‘AEKit,’ is a set of resources designed to help individuals better identify government…

• Data Science for Social Good launches projects on polarized voting and online disinformation

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell On June 15th, the University of Washington’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program began with eight fellows working on two project teams in collaboration with data scientists from the eScience Institute and project leads from academic institutions and nonprofit organizations. Student fellows joined the program from colleges and universities around…

• Data Science for Social Good team analyzes equity of congestion pricing on Interstate 405

  

  By Emily Keller-O’Donnell August 19, 2019 A team in the eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program has partnered with the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) to study the usage patterns, price sensitivities and equity impacts of congestion pricing on Interstate 405. The project utilizes data on the more than 16 million trips…

• Team develops prototype tool on accessory dwelling units for homeowners

  

  By Emily Keller-O’Donnell August 16, 2019 The City of Seattle is collaborating with an interdisciplinary team in the eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program on a project to encourage the development of affordable accessory dwelling units (ADUs). The team is prototyping an informational tool for homeowners and researchers as part of broader…

• 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 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…