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 …
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Hands up if you’re so happy with your body image that you’d be willing to post a nude selfie on social media? I doubt there will be many takers! The idea of laying ourselves bare for all to see and judge makes us feel vulnerable. Yet a similar reaction is …
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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, …
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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 …
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We are thrilled to announce that we’ve received support from The Rockefeller Foundation to shape a future vision of data science for social impact. This project will build on DataKind’s learnings from six years of connecting expert data scientists and AI engineers with social organizations to build innovative data-driven solutions …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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Guest post by DataKind Singapore
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