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Photo Credit: Alison Bert for Elsevier When a natural disaster strikes, knowing where people and buildings are is of the utmost importance for saving lives. The World Bank Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and DataKind teamed up to understand how might satellite imagery and machine learning aide …

DataKind’s Founder & Executive Director, Jake Porway, and Friederike Schüür, Research Engineer at Cloudera recently caught-up in Brooklyn for a chat. Here’s some of what they spoke about… A little about Friederike… Neuroscientist, data scientist, accidental engineer Wrote her first line of Python code working on a DataKind project Recent …

DataKind’s Founder & Executive Director, Jake Porway, and Cathy O’Neil recently caught-up in New York City for a chat. Here’s some of what they spoke about.. A little about Cathy… Mom, mathematician, data nerd, blogger ( mathbabe.org ), writer and self-proclaimed loud mouth. Author of the critically acclaimed 2017 text, …

DataKind’s Founder & Executive Director, Jake Porway, and Wes McKinney recently caught-up in NYC for a chat. Here’s some of what they spoke about… A little about Wes… Data scientist, founder, inventor, author and 33K+ Twitter followers Created open source Pandas package for data analysis in the Python programming language …

DataKind’s Founder & Executive Director, Jake Porway, and Elizabeth Christopherson, CEO, Rita Allen Foundation recently caught-up in NYC for a chat. Here’s some of what they spoke about… A little about Elizabeth… Civic entrepreneur; builder of ideas, organizations and networks; inveterate asker of questions Leads the Rita Allen Foundation, a …

DataKind’s Founder & Executive Director, Jake Porway, and DJ Patil recently caught-up for a chat. Here’s some of what they spoke about… A little about DJ… Husband, dad, data maverick Chaos Theory mathematician Served in 2 Administrations on domestic and national security US Chief Data Officer 2015-17 appointed by President …

We were thrilled to host a DataDive June 22-24 in partnership with Google Cloud and the 11th Hour Project, as well as with the support of Elsevier Foundation, Teradata and American Airlines.