By Jake Porway, Co-Founder & Executive Director, DataKind *This article was originally posted on October 7, 2020 but has been reposted with updates. Well, it’s hard to believe, but we’ve just about made it through 2020. I know this year has been a tough one for all of us. In …
In the spirit of staying connected, we held a virtual event powered by Teradata to celebrate what the Data for Good community has done to make the world a better, safer, healthier, and fairer place. With the theme of “Empowering Communities, Serving Humanity”, we “charged” things up with lightning talks by volunteers sharing work that they’ve done over the past year.
What happens when the original data begins to get a bit stale and as new insights are learned? DataKind DC and the American Red Cross (Red Cross) have spent the past year answering these questions.
In the Spirit of Continuous Improvement: Revisiting the American Red Cross Fire Risk Map Read More »
Nick Hamlin lives to make social good data accessible, understandable, and actionable for everyone. As GlobalGiving ’s first Data Scientist, Nick wears many hats, including leading the organization’s data strategy, building and maintaining core infrastructure, and designing experiments to evaluate program impact.
Volunteer Spotlight: Nick Hamlin Read More »
Riders wanted to explore ways to ease their couriers’ burdens while speeding up the process of digitizing the data from handwritten forms – ideally in near-real-time! To address this challenge, DataKindⓇ developed “ROCR”: a prototype optical character recognition assisted form-capture tool that extracts and predicts key handwritten fields in the standard sample-transport forms used by Riders’ operations in Nigeria – and records them in a digital logbook.
Housing insecurity is a looming crisis in the United States: nearly 5 million Americans lose their homes through eviction and foreclosure. The onslaught of COVID-19 and subsequent economic depression is leaving many without a sustainable plan to cover rent or mortgages. Though its ultimate impact will take years to clearly understand, we know that the loss of property and forced displacements are intensely traumatic financially, physically, and emotionally.
WeRobotics is a nonprofit organization dedicated to scaling and accelerating the positive impact of humanitarian, environmental, and public health projects by localizing appropriate robotics solutions such as drones.
Detecting Buildings From Drone Imagery For Disaster Response with WeRobotics Read More »
Alexander Sack started his career working on operating systems and system programming, but it was his love for gradient descent that led him on the path to becoming a Machine Learning Engineer for Corteva Agriscience.
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Without trust in community-collected health data, how can leaders confidently invest in frontline health systems, make informed decisions about public health policy, and grasp opportunities to optimize health service delivery and patient outcomes?
Engineering Scalable Data Quality Assessments for Frontline Health with Medic Mobile Read More »
DataKind is conducting a global survey to better understand the Data for Good (D4G) Community.
Help shape the next wave of the ‘Data for Good’ Community! Read More »
