Please join us tomorrow at the Change Seminar. Ariel Rokem from the eScience Institute will be joining us to talk about last summers Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program and upcoming plans for the this year.
*What:* Data Science for Social Good at the eScience Institute *When:* Tuesday, Feb 16 at 12pm *Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203 *Abstract *During the Summer of 2015, the University of Washington eScience Institute ran an interdisciplinary summer internship program focused on urban informatics, civic engagement, and data-intensive social science. Borrowing elements from the successful Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) programs at the University of Chicago and Georgia Tech, and building on our own previous consulting and "incubation" programs for data-intensive projects in physical, life, and social sciences, we brought together teams of students (graduate, undergraduate, and high school), data scientists, project leads and stakeholders from the University of Washington and local NGOs to design, develop, and deploy new solutions to high-impact problems in the Seattle Metro Area. The teams worked on 4 different projects: two addressing transportation access for people with limited mobility, one identifying factors affecting whether homeless families find permanent housing, and one deriving new metrics of community well-being from social media data and other relevant data sources. The teams worked in the eScience Data Science Studio space designed in part for this purpose, and participated in tutorials on relevant tools and technologies, such as GitHub, Python, R, Amazon Web Services, and SQL, as well as topical presentations and discussions related to social good and multi-stakeholder collaborations. While the diversity in software and disciplinary experience among participants was initially challenging for tutorial organization and scoping projects, this diversity actually helped to improve the scope of the projects. We are currently preparing for the next installment of our urban DSSG fellowship, and we are accepting applications at: http://escience.washington.edu/get-involved/incubator-programs/data-science-for-social-good/
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