Projects - Data science for social good

The Observatory on Social Media

107 S Indiana Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

To improve the study of the impact of the internet on democracy by increasing the scale, quality and availability of social media data

Data for Black Lives conference

MIT Media Lab

December 11-13 2020

racial equity

Data for Climate Action (D4CA)

Data for Black Lives

United States of America (the)

Data as protest. Data as accountability. Data as collective action.

racial equity

The CivicLab

United States of America (the)

Innovating for democracy

workshops

City Data Sharing Toolkit

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Future Cities Catapult has developed a City Data Sharing Toolkit. The toolkit includes tools, approaches and resources for local authorities sharing non-personal data.

HateLab

Harnessing Data Science to Measure and Counter Hate Speech & Crime

Climate Modeling in Colombia

Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Avenida Jimenez De Quesada, Bogota, Colombia

In a cross-sector partnership led by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture, The Clima y Sector Agropecuario Colombiano (Colombian Climate and Agricultural Sector; CSAC) provides meteorological data to farmers along with data on the economics and agronomy of rice cultivation.

Contracts for Data Collaboration

GovLab New York University

to address the inefficiencies of developing contractual agreements for public-private data collaboration

OpenTraffic Initiative Phillipines

Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines

Supernormal

285 Washington St, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA

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

Data.org

2300 N Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20037, USA

data.org brings together philanthropy, private sector technology, academia, and social impact organizations to build the field of data science for social impact.

Data science for social good

Dangerous Speech Project

The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people – and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting freedom of expression.

hate speech

Facebook, OECD and World Bank Measuring Business Sentiment

Facebook

Beyond Uptake

Uptake.org leverages Uptake's people, technology and expertise to address the world's most pressing problems.

Uber data-sharing with governments

Uber HQ, Market Street, San Francisco, CA, USA

The ride-hailing company is working with DC to share data—and the much coveted curb.

Uber

Johnson & Johnson-Yale Open Data Access Project

As of October 2014, the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project is enabling scientists across the world to gain access to the company’s clinical trial data assets.

Flowminder

Flowminder Foundation is a registered non-profit entity based in Stockholm, Sweden, Our mission is to improve public health outcomes by working with NGOs and government agencies with method development, capacity building, and implementation and scaling of processes relating to collecting, aggregating, analyzing, and disseminating anonymized mobile phone location data and satellite data.

Excel for Census Data

Excel and Census Data Workshop Instructors Guide

census

Intel's Big Data for Precision Farming

University of California, Davis, Shields Avenue, CA, USA

Intel is working with University of California, Davis, to perfect irrigation techniques by placing sensors in crops and other strategic areas to monitor soil and air moisture levels.

Data Does Good

Nepal's Telecom Data & Post-Earthquake Mobility

Nepal

A report on innovations attempted by Mobile Network Operators following the major earthquake in Nepal

earthquakes

Open Cities Lab

153a Helen Joseph Road, Congela, Durban, South Africa

Open Cities Lab is a non-profit open and non-partisan organisation that combines the use of action research, co-design, data science, and technology with civic engagement, to enable the development of inclusive cities and urban spaces.

Strava Metro

Strava Office, Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA

Metro is the largest active transportation dataset on the planet.

mobility

Housing Data Coalition

50 Broad St, New York, NY 10004, United States

The Housing Data Coalition (HDC) is a group of individuals and organizations who collaborate on their use of public data to further housing justice in New York City.

housing

Catalist

United States of America (the)

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. Working with Catalist can help you build membership, target persuasive messaging, engage activists, drive an issue agenda, and register or mobilize voters.

Local Inspector Value-Entry Specification (LIVES)

Yelp, Inc, New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA, USA

Restaurant hygiene scores from the City of San Francisco will be imported onto Yelp business pages

Census Hard to Count Maps

United States of America (the)

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

census

Enexis Open Data Agenda

Powered by Data

1124 Marie-Anne St E, Montreal, QC H2J 2B7, Canada

Our mission is to maximize the availability and impact of data for public good.

Genomic Data Commons

United States of America (the)

Harvard's Malaria Tracking Research

Namibia

Researchers used satellite and cell phone data to map how malaria spreads throughout Namibia and show where elimination efforts have the greatest impact.

Preteckt

88 Union Ave, Memphis, Tennessee 38103, United States

Preteckt studies vehicle data from buses to predict system failures at least 48 hours before the Check Engine light is activated and the bus must be removed from service. Preteckt’s insights have the potential to reduce time spent on maintenance, prevent service disruptions and reduce fleet costs.

Data 4 Good Conference UK

Birmingham, UK

The conference will connect leaders and practitioners to explore how non-profits are adapting and excelling in an increasingly data-driven world.

Streetcaster

285 Washington St, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA

Supernormal explored an algorithm that integrates social equity as a key variable in prioritizing infrastructural replacements and repairs.

Mobile Phone Data for Optimizing Bus Routes in Korea

Block Party

New York, NY

We make local policy information accessible and byte-sized, with a weekly email of your community board’s most recent meeting highlights and transcript data.

Data Collaboratives

Campaign OS

The All-in-One Campaign Management Dashboard for Democrats and Progressives

DataKind Labs Vision Zero Project

Data61

Australia

We collaborate with governments to facilitate better discovery of data, to make data available while protecting privacy, and to perform advanced analytics on data.

Data Science for Social Good, UChicago

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. Working closely with governments and nonprofits, fellows take on real-world problems in education, health, energy, public safety, transportation, economic development, international development, and more. For three months in Chicago they learn, hone, and apply their data science, AI,analytical, and coding skills, collaborate in a fast-paced atmosphere, and learn from mentors coming from industry and academia.