Tag: homelessness

• Software for Community-Driven Enumeration: Needs Assessment of People Experiencing Homelessness 

  

  Partners: Zack Almquist and June Yang SSEC Engineer: Anant Mittal Graduate Student Leads: Ihsan Kahveci, Emily Porter Undergraduate and Graduate Student Engineers: Arushi Agarwal, Hana Amos, Zack Crouse, Devanshi Desai, Elizabeth Deng, Kristen L. Gustafson, Finley Hutchison, Kaden Kapadia, Hannah Lam, Aryan Palave, KelliAnn Ramirez, Natalie Robbins, Hrudhai Umashankar, Jasmine Vuong, Ella Weinberg Research Goals…

• Understanding Unsheltered Homelessness in King County: UW 2023 Seattle Area Homeless Count

  

  Project leads: Zach Almquist, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Washington. Data scientist: June Yang, eScience Institute, University of Washington. DSSG fellows: Brooke Kaye, Felix Jr. Appiah Kubi, Jessica Robinson, Rebecca Schachtman. The US Department of Housing and Urban Development released the 2023 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) on December 15, 2023. The report estimates that 653,100…

• 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…