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Data Sciencefor
Social Good1
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The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make
people click ads. That sucks.— Jeff Hammerbacher (Co-founder Facebook)
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Social organizations need to allocate scarce resources for
maximum impact3
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· predicting where services will be needed· prioritizing resources based on expected impact
· forecasting trends and changes· identifying supporters likely to donate
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Basically regression problems
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Social organizations o!en don’t have
data scientists6
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What if data scientists would
donatetheir skills?
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This is already happening...*
* ...but not so much in Germany
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A guided tour through theData Science for Social Good
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DSSG Fellowship· supported by the Eric & Wendy Schmidt
Foundation· 6 month fellowship
· currently in 3rd year (started 2013)· Partners: NGOs, Governments
http://dssg.io/10
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Examples (project headline copy&paste)· World Bank Group – Prediction & Identification
of Collusion in International Development Projects
· Chicago Public Schools – Student Enrollment Prediction for Budget Allocation
· Pecan Street , WikiEnergy – Building Open Source Tools to Analyze Smart Meter Data
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DSSG Atlanta· like DSSG Chicago
· mainly funded by Oracle and Georgia Tech· started 2014 (one year a!er Chicago)
http://dssg-atl.io/
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DSSG Washington· University of Washington just announced their
DSSG Summer Programhttp://escience.washington.edu/what-we-do/
data-science-for-social-good
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Bayes Impact (YC-backed)Bayes Impact is a nonprofit that deploys data
scientists to solve big social problems with civic and nonprofit organizations
· founded 2014· started as (full-time-)fellowship· now hiring long-term employees
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Examples (project headline copy&paste)· Increasing Graduation Rate And Optimizing
Class Offerings For UC Riverside· Improving Outcomes For Emotionally And Behaviorally Challenged Children With Youth
Villages· Stratification Of Parkinson's Disease Patients· Optimizing Ambulance Response Times In Sf
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Bayes Hack Nov 15th
One weekend,impact the world
http://bayeshack.challengepost.com
/submissions
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drivendata· started this year (2014)
· currently 4 open competitionshttp://www.drivendata.org/
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more opportunities to get involvedhttp://blog.datalook.io/definitive-guide-data-science-good/
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DataKindWe're tackling the world's biggest problems
through data science.— http://www.datakind.org
DataKind connects charities with data scientists by organizing two-day data dives where those
data scientists help solve the charities’ data problems.
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Analyzing poverty through satellite imagery
DataKind helped GiveDirectly – an NGO making
unconditional cash transfers to poor households via mobile phones in Kenia and Uganda1 – to identify especially needy
villages through satellite image analysis2.
2 http://www.datakind.org/projects/using-the-simple-to-be-radical/
1 http://www.ted.com/talks/joysunshouldyoudonate_differently
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View the presentationor read the paper
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Early warning system for human rights abusesTo help prioritize the many calls for help reaching
Amnesty International’s Urgent Action Network DataKind volunteers have created a predictive
model that analyzes messages for potential escalation.34
4 http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/on-it/amnesty-international-considers-using-big-data-to-predict-human-rights-violations/2013/11/22/3f4f1a1e-5388-11e3-a7f0-b790929232e1_story.html
3 http://www.datakind.org/projects/using-predictive-analytics-to-prevent-human-rights-abuses/
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Predicting demand for children’s hospices
Combining data from Shooting Star Chase, public data about the hospice and
healthcare sector and demographic data DataKind
volunteers calculated predicted demand against hospice capacity to reveal
areas of possible shortage.5
5 http://www.datakind.org/finding-30000-missing-children/
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Most of DataKinds projects have been tackled by volunteers on 2-day data dives.
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What’s a
Data Dive?28
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Before: Preparation of the data(by voluntary data ambassadors in collaboration with the challenge
partner – starting ~2 month before the data dive)
· anonymization/pseudonymization· cleaning/fixing
· ensuring proper (machine readable) data formats
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Before:Preparation of the
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Any data scientist worth their salary will tell you that you
should start with a question, NOT the data.
— Jake Porway in https://hbr.org/2013/03/you-cant-just-hack-your-way-to/
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The Data Dive· Challenge partners pitch their problems· Volunteers create analyses, models and
visualizations (led by data ambassadors) in two intense days of hacking
· solutions are being presented at the end
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Aftermath:Implementation
Social organizations still don’t have the expertise: data ambassadors must help implement the solutions
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Aftermath:Impact Analysis
Did it help at all?
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There is currently no organization in Germany comparable to DataKind.
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There is currently no organization in Germany comparable to DataKind.
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We want to start theData Science for Social Good
Movement in Germany39
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Who we are?· Daniel Kirsch
· Marit Brademann· Jana Kludas
· Richard Lawrence· Georg Walther
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Supporters· Klaas Bollhöfer,
Chief Data Scientist@ The Unbelievable Machine Company
· Adam Drake,Chief Data Officer @ Skyscanner
· Dr. Alexander Weiß Head of Data Analytics @ Trademob
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What we need42
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We need data ambassadors(how DataKind calls them)
· to prepare data before data dives· lead teams at data dives
· help with the implementation a!erwards
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We need problemsThe international of the Data Science for Social Good-movement shows that data scientists are
eager to donate their skills.Social organizations need to understand how we
can help them. Are you in contact with NGOs? Spread the word!
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Contacthttp://dssg-berlin.org/
@dssgberDaniel Kirsch
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Thank you!Questions?
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Links:· http://datakind.org· http://dssg.io
· http://dssg-atl.io· http://bayesimpact.org
· http://codefor.de· http://datalook.io
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Attribution· Foto of Jeff Hammberbacher by Fred Brenenson
licensed under CC BY 2.0
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