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Preventive Care for the City’s Circulatory System
Preventive Care for the City's Circulatory System Around the world, cities are showing signs of old age. For urban areas, one of the first signs of advancing years comes in [...]
Police Project Update: Expanding and Implementing the Early Intervention System
Police Project Update: Expanding and Implementing the Early Intervention System In recent years, the issue of police violence and misconduct has repeatedly made headlines and inspired protests across the United [...]
Scoping Data Science (for Social Good) Projects
Scoping Data (for Social Good) Projects Resources in this post: Blank Project Scoping Worksheet (Previous Version) and a filled-out Project Scoping Worksheet. Over the past several years, the University of Chicago Center [...]
The Real World: DSSG
The Real World: DSSG This is the true story of 42 strangers picked to live in a dorm, work together, and have their lives taped to find out what happens [...]
Sanergy: Smart scheduling to improve toilet collections in Kenya
Every year, some 1 million people die because they do not have access to hygienic sanitation. Among other problems, poor sanitation causes diarrhoea, which is the second largest cause of [...]
MVESC: Finding the Missing Students Who Don’t Graduate On Time
Over 1.2 million or 7.1% high school students drop out every year. Dropping out of high school is costly for both the students and society: 30% of dropouts are unemployed, [...]
CMPD: Behind the Headlines, Beneath the Data
It's usual for those of us here at Data Science for Social Good to want to see our projects thrown into the spotlight. More publicity means a wider audience, which [...]
Tulsa Public Schools: Preparing Kids for the Third Grade Turning Point
Third grade is a turning point in learning, where students transition from learning to read to reading to learn. Thus, many education systems now focus on early literacy. There’s a [...]
2016 Police Projects: Back to the Whiteboards
A crucial but often overlooked consideration when working with data is: what is the best way to organise it? The way we organise our data can change not only how [...]
DSSG 2016 Week One: Convergence and Priorities
Data Science for Social Good is now four years old. If we were a toddler, we’d be learning our alphabet and arithmetic. If we were a high school student, we’d [...]