Tag: DSSG2020

• Migrating the DSSG Summer Program to a Remote Setting

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell After five years of running the Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program in the eScience Institute’s open studio space – where project leads spend at least two days per week with full-time student fellows and in-house data scientists for ten weeks – the program has now completed its first successful…

• 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…

• Identifying Coronavirus Disinformation on Websites

  

  Project leads: Maggie Engler, Lead Data Scientist, and Lucas Wright, Senior Researcher, at the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) Data scientists: Noah Benson and Vaughn Iverson DSSG fellows: George Hope Chidziwisano, Richa Gupta, Kseniya Husak, Maya Luetke Participant bios available here. Project Summary: Online disinformation has been used as a tool to weaponize mass influence and disseminate propaganda. To combat disinformation, we need…

• 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…

• 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…