As an organization focused on using data science to support humanitarian issues, DataKind knows that ethics are of the utmost importance. In this blog, DataKind UK outlines the ethical principles their community has created. Read on and see what you think. Is this a code you’d adopt? What would you add? Join the conversation by leaving comments below and stay tuned for more on this topic.
Doing Data for Good Right Read More »
Advances in data science, machine learning and predictive technologies offer organizations working to protect democratic freedoms unprecedented opportunities to leverage data to achieve their mission, scale their work and help build a more just and equitable world. In response to recent discourse and policy in the U.S. targeting vulnerable groups and threatening our democratic institutions, we’re launching five new DataCorps projects and will be hosting a DataDive focused on these important issues.
Data Science Protecting Democratic Freedoms in the U.S. Read More »
Help DC Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) caseworkers determine their clients’ eligibility for multiple programs and social services at once.
Create a protoype of a tool and codebase that can easily be repurposed and replicated by other agencies facing similar challenges.
A Reusable Tool To Determine Social Services Eligibility Read More »
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 »
