Doing and Teaching Data Science for Social Good Rayid Ghani Center for Data Science & Public Policy Rayid Ghani @rayidghani
Alamance County Harvey Orange County Albuquerque Inglewood PiIsburgh Bal2more Kenton County Portland Boise Los Angeles Price George County Buffalo Maricopa County Puerto Rico Chicago Meridian SeaIle Cincinna2 Miami Steubenville Cleveland Minneapolis Suffolk County Colorado City Missoula University of Montana Detroit Montgomery County Vila Rica East Haven New Orleans Virgin Islands Escambia County Newark Warren Ferguson New Jersey Washington Rayid Ghani @rayidghani
LEAD Lack of Motor Skills Impaired A>en?on Hearing Loss Learning Disability Lower IQ Memory Problems Rayid Ghani @rayidghani
Rayid Ghani @rayidghani
Rayid Ghani @rayidghani
Problems in Social Good X • Can I detect who’s going to get lead poisoning early? X • Can I determine which home inspec?ons to priori?ze? • Which policies do I modify to improve maternal mortality? X X • How much impact is my aOer-school program having? X • Can I get data that helps me match employers with employees? Rayid Ghani @rayidghani
What’s missing? Educa2ng Academia Collabora2ve Projects New Methods and Policymakers and Use Cases and Reusable Tools Rayid Ghani @rayidghani
What we need Computer Science & Sta?s?cs & Programming Machine Problem Formula?on Learning Skills Econometrics & Social Communica?on Science Methods Privacy, Ethics, Experimental Design Transparency Issues Rayid Ghani @rayidghani
Rayid Ghani @rayidghani
Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good The Eric & Wendy Schmidt Summer Fellowship Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship http://dssg.uchicago.edu @datascifellows Rayid Ghani @rayidghani
Contact Informa?on Rayid Ghani Center for Data Science & Public Policy University of Chicago rayid@uchicago.edu Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship h>p://dssg.uchicago.edu Center for Data Science & Public Policy h>p://dsapp.org Rayid Ghani @rayidghani
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