Tag: DSSG

• 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)…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• Social good fellows win Seattle Angelhack

  

  By Robin Brooks 2017 Data Science for Social Good fellows Brett Bejcek, Mayuree Binjolkar, and Orysya Stus, with UW electrical engineering PhD student Yana Sosnovskaya, competed in and won the ‘Best use of HERE Technologies’ challenge at Seattle’s AngelHack, July 15 -16. The team developed an SMS-based (text messaging) application called Basic Needs, which utilizes Amazon…