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Jul 10,2014

Battling Blight in The Bluff City

July 10th, 2014|

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 [...]

Jul 2,2014

Shining a Light on Earmarks

July 2nd, 2014|

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 [...]

Jun 5,2014

Fighting The Babel Effect with Bootcamp

June 5th, 2014|

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 [...]

Jun 3,2014

Introductions and Definitions

June 3rd, 2014|

"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 [...]

May 29,2014

Meet the 2014 DSSG Fellows

May 29th, 2014|

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 [...]

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