Jake Porway
Founder & Executive Director, DataKind. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Jake Porway is the founder and executive director of DataKind. He focuses on applying big data to solve world-changing problems.
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1said about them ↓ Everything Jake Porway said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Jake Porway: Open data initiatives fail by being supply-driven, not demand-driven.
“You know, one of my sort of pet peeves is that open data right now is incredibly supply-driven. You know, there's this idea, like, we've got data, let's make it open, and the technologists will figure it out.”
Jake Porway: Social sector data science depends more on politics than technology.
“Applying our trade to social sector issues, which often has less to do with data and technology and more with politics and people”
Jake Porway: Placing data scientists in non-profits fails without structural support.
“Data scientists are expensive, and even if you just plopped a data scientist in with a lot of these non-profits, they wouldn't know what to do with one.”
DonorsChoose uses its classroom resource data to actively lobby US lawmakers.
“DonorsChoose is now taking these findings, and they're actually becoming an advocacy group. So they are lobbying lawmakers and decision makers to say, hey, did you know this is going on in your school systems? We have this data that once we analyze, we're able…”
Five percent of Crisis Text Line users consume 40% of counselor resources.
“So it's something like five percent of the people that call into these crisis lines take 40% of the resources.”
Jake Porway: Most social sector groups need basic exploratory data analysis.
“Most of these groups really just need basic exploratory analysis, data that's never been mined that could be really effective.”
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.”
Jake Porway: Unintended algorithmic biases will dictate how humans actually work.
“These unintended cultural and social biases are making their way into tools that are going to shape the way people work.”
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…”
DonorsChoose holds the largest US database of public school resource requests.
“What DonorChoose realized is they're actually sitting on the largest database of school requests around public schools in the US. No one's ever looked at that data before. No one else has it.”
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…”
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.”
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…”
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…”
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| MADLEDGER | Founder & Executive Director, DataKind | 1 | 14 | 20% 1/5 | full record on the MAD Podcast → |