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2 Minutes With Cathy O’Neil

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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2 Minutes With Wes McKinney

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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Designing Data for Good 2025

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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2 Minutes With DJ Patil

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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Using Satellite Imagery to Generate Awareness and Funds for Refugees

At a 2017 DataDive presented by USA for UNHCR, #GivingTuesday and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a team of DataKind volunteers led by Evelyn Lang, Ravin Pierre, and Friederike Schüür worked alongside Rita Ko and Franck Mujyanama of USA for UNHCR to see how emerging technologies like data science and newly available data sources might be leveraged to help the organization raise awareness and showcase the refugee experience to inspire more donors to give.

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