We are a collective of passionate socially minded people who are empowering social change makers to be better by allowing their data to speak to them.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Supernormal is an architecture, urban design, and research firm investigating the inevitable overlap of cultural and digital practice.

• cities
• urban planning

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Innovating for democracy

• workshops

• Meet the others
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Initiated in 2011 through $100 million in seed money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, inBloom was a nonprofit student data repository that made cleaned, standardized school and student data available to third parties.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Catalist compiles, enhances, stores, and dynamically updates data on over 256 million unique voting-age individuals across all 50 states and the District of Columbia

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Mapping Hard to Count (HTC) Communities for a Fair and Accurate 2020 Census

• census

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Enexis, a Dutch energy company, makes anonymized data about residential gas and electric energy use publically available via its website.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Whether we’re finding the most efficient way to deliver food aid, streamlining the process for benefits access, or simply finding ways to serve more people with fewer resources, the DataKind Community is ready to find data-driven solutions, and build data maturity along the way.

• The People
• Build something
• Data science for social good

Facebook, World Bank and the OECD launched a measure of business sentiment based on a “Future of Business Survey” questioning companies that use their Facebook pages to connect with customers.

• Facebook

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Fellowships