DataKind
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DataKind built a logistic regression model for Amnesty International human rights tracking.
“We face this problem building a project with Amnesty International predicting human rights violations. Built a great logistic model that would help us understand, based on the severity of a report of a human rights violation, which ones Amnesty International g…”
Swimming pool detection algorithms were adapted to identify stagnant water for malaria.
“The one that actually this ultimately ended up getting used for was outside of the US for actually doing malaria prevention. So it turns out that stagnant pools are a huge issue for malaria. And so people use a similar algorithm to find these pools and drain t…”
Accessible computing enables independent social impact projects outside of traditional institutions.
“We don't have to make change just from work. We have the computing power and the data that's out there to build things like this just sitting at home in our underpants.”
DataKind has completed over 60 projects with 7,000 global volunteers.
“We've done over 60. We've got over 7000 volunteers around the world. Recently we expanded to six international chapters.”
DataKind volunteers mapped poverty across Kenya and Uganda in two hours.
“So a team from IBM and Mozilla basically built a classification algorithm that would find the different roof types. Interesting regression model we could talk about later. But what it allowed them to do is basically build this map of roofiness be a proper stat…”
Jake Porway founded DataKind to match volunteer data scientists with non-profits.
“So that's why we founded Datakind. It's a non-profit that would team up pro bono data scientists. People who wanted to volunteer their time anytime from a weekend to a six-month project, all the way to working on a full-time, full-day job project to use data i…”