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Data Science for Social Good: Exploring Geographic Factors of Seattle’s Minimum Wage Law

By: Emily Keller

When the Seattle minimum wage law took effect in 2015, it dovetailed with an increase in housing prices as an influx of high-wage technology workers moved to the region. For an interdisciplinary team in the University of Washington Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program, this raises the question of whether some of […]

August 3rd, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, data science, Data Science for Social Good, DSSG, DSSG2021, Jennie Romich, Jose Hernandez, minimum wage, social good, Valentina Staneva, WMLAD|

Data Science for Social Good Program Launches for Summer 2021

By: Emily Keller

On June 14th, the University of Washington’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program began with eight student fellows working on two project teams in collaboration with data scientists from the eScience Institute and project leads from academic institutions. Student fellows joined the program from colleges and universities around the country. Their […]

June 16th, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: Bernease Herman, data science, data science education, Data Science for Social Good, DSSG, DSSG2021, Jose Hernandez, minimum wage, Valentina Staneva, Vaughn Iverson, voting rights|