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Battling Blight in The Bluff City
To most people, Memphis, Tennessee evokes images of Elvis, Beale Street, and BBQ. But like many American cities, Memphis also faces a legacy of urban planning dominated by suburban growth [...]
Shining a Light on Earmarks
Earmarks have been called “the best known, most notorious, and most misunderstood aspect of the congressional budgetary process.” These government budget items allocated to specific people, places, or projects are [...]
2014 Projects, Part 4: Chicago Department of Public Health, Montgomery County Public Schools, Conservation International
It's hard to believe we're already a third of the way through the summer. During a foggy week where Chicago did its best impression of San Francisco, the DSSG fellows [...]
2014 Projects, Part 3: Memphis, Health Leads, Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness
The time for introductions is over at Data Science for Social Good. Joined at the start of the week by a smattering of late-arriving fellows, the project teams are now [...]
Why Doing Data Science with Non-Profits is Different from Industry
Republished from DSSG fellow Carl Shan's blog, where is he recapping the summer week-by-week. One of the non-profit partners my team is working with came in to the office this [...]
2014 Projects, Part 2: WikiEnergy, Enroll America/Get Covered Illinois, Nurse-Family Partnership
It was a busy week of working with and learning from our project partners, in person at the DSSG space on State Street, on video chats, and in conference calls. [...]
2014 Projects, Part 1: World Bank Group, CPS, Harris School/Sunlight Foundation
In the second week of the fellowship, fellows and mentors have heard from a wide range of our project partners for the summer, learning from the experts about the problems [...]
Fighting The Babel Effect with Bootcamp
As a young, rapidly-growing, and broad field, data science has a language problem. A self-described data scientist may prefer to program in Python, R, or Stata. They use cloud computing [...]
Introductions and Definitions
"Data science is not a real field, it's just statistics done by people with weird hair." You might not expect a fellowship called Data Science for Social Good to begin [...]
Meet the 2014 DSSG Fellows
This year, we’ve expanded our fellow slots by a dozen, from 36 to 48. The fellows come from universities throughout North America, from McGill University in Montreal to Instituto Tecnológico [...]