If philanthropic giving helps fuel social change, how can we increase it? This was one of many questions we dove into alongside the 92nd Street Y, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and over 100 data science volunteers at a New York DataDive held at Facebook this past March.
#GivingTuesday DataDive Findings Report Read More »
Thanks to support from the Rita Allen Foundation, we are pleased to share our Labs Blueprint, a new resource documenting our learnings and approach from our first Labs project using data science to improve traffic safety in three U.S. cities.
Introducing Our New Labs Blueprint Read More »
Develop a “proof of concept” water demand forecasting model using flow data at the microzone level for potential future scaling to other retailers in the California Data Collaborative, a unique water manager-led public private partnership that brings together utilities across the state to leverage data to help water managers ensure reliability.
Forecasting Water Demand in California When Every Drop Counts Read More »
Analyze the impact of different factors VOTO Mobile can control to increase mobile survey response rates among rural women in developing countries
Develop a tool to enable VOTO Mobile to forecast response rates and design surveys to access the hardest to reach and the least represented populations in the world
Giving a Voice to Rural Women Through Mobile Surveys Read More »
Cultivated by about five million households, wheat is an important crop in Ethiopia as both a source of income for small farmers and a source of food and nutrition for millions of Ethiopians. Despite the country’s huge potential to grow wheat, the average wheat productivity of 2.5 tonnes per hectare is lower than the global average of 3 tonnes per hectare. This is due in part to recurrent outbreaks of a fungal disease called wheat rust that causes devastating pre-harvest losses.
Predicting Wheat Rust in Ethiopia with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Read More »
Guest Post by Andrew Brooks, DataKind DC Core Leader and Data Ambassador
American Red Cross and DataKind Team Up to Prevent Home Fire Deaths and Injuries Read More »
This week we celebrated a new DataKind hoilday.
International Craig Barowsky Day Read More »
As part of National Volunteer Week 2016, we are profiling our DataCorps volunteers of projects past, present and future. These volunteers donate a whopping 5-10 hours a week over the course of several months to apply data science techniques that can help advance a social change organization’s mission.
Managing Urban Water Use When Every Drop Counts Read More »
As part of National Volunteer Week this month, we are profiling volunteers of DataCorps projects past, present and future. In this special post, we highlight a lesser-known volunteer role – the Data Creative.
Our Secret Superpower: Data Creatives Read More »
