Tag: DSSG2015

• Assessing Community Well-being through Open Data and Social Media

  

  Project Lead: Shelly Farnham, Third Place Technologies DSSG Fellows: Jordan Bates, Ryan Burns, Jenny Ho, Yue Zhou ALVA Students: Avery Glass, Jennifer Nino eScience Data Scientist Mentors: Bernease Herman, Bill Howe Our DSSG Fellows and ALVA students paired with Third Place Technologies to create neighborhood community report pages in the context of a hyperlocal, crowd-sourced community network. The objective was to…

• Rerouting Solutions and Expensive Ride Analysis for King County Paratransit

  

  Project Lead: Dr. Anat Caspi, Taskar Center for Accessible Technology DSSG Fellows: Rohan Aras, Frank Fineis, Kristen Garofali, Kivan Polimis eScience Data Scientists: Joseph Hellerstein and Valentina Staneva DREU Fellow: Emily Andrulis, Cornell College Weekly The Paratransit team collaborated with King County Metro to improve operations of the Paratransit service which is an on-demand public transportation program that provides…

• Predictors of Permanent Housing for Homeless Families

  

  Project Leads: Neil Roche and Anjana Sundaram, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation DSSG Fellows: Joan Wang, Jason Portenoy, Fabliha Ibnat, Chris Suberlak ALVA Students: Cameron Holt, Xilalit Sanchez eScience Data Scientist Mentors: Ariel Rokem, Bryna Hazelton The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, together with Building Changes, have partnered with King, Pierce and Snohomish counties to make homelessness in these counties rare, brief and…

• Open Sidewalk Graph for Accessible Trip Planning

  

  Project Leads: Nick Bolten, Anat Caspi DSSG Fellows: Amir Amini, Yun Hao, Vaishnavi Ravichandran, Andre Stephens ALVA Students: Nick Krasnoselsky, Doris Layman eScience Data Scientist Mentors: Anthony Arendt, Jake Vanderplas This project is an extension of the “Hackcessible” project that was awarded top prize in this year’s “HackTheCommute” event in Seattle. Hackcessible has built an application that helps people…