Data Science for Social Good – Social Data Science
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Data Science to
create Social Impact
We create and sustain communities, programs, and
solutions that enhance the use of responsible data
science and AI for equitable social good
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Our 2022 DSSG Summer Fellowship is taking place at Carnegie Mellon University
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Try out Aequitas, our open source bias and fairness audit toolkit for AI and ML models
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Our mission
Data Science for Social Good
Our mission is to foster the use of
data science
for
positive social impact
. We train and support a new generation of data scientists, provide direct support to nonprofits, and develop tools that ensure data science and artificial intelligence are used to positively and equitably benefit people all over the world.
What we do
Education
“We create interdisciplinary programs and content to train the next generation of responsible data scientists to tackle social problems that matter.”
More about our education programs
Tools & Solutions
“We incubate ideas, tools, and solutions to
scale the impact of data science for social
good. All of our code is available as open-source.”
More about our tools + solutions
Community
“We are growing a global community to
collaborate on problems with
a social impact.”
More about our community building efforts
Our Initiatives
We have a wide range of initiatives designed to create impact: from training data scientists, governments, and non profits to work on social impact projects, to developing tools for ethical and responsible AI, to connecting social good organizations with data science needs and volunteers who can help them.
Solve for Good
Solve for Good is our volunteer platform – for social good organizations to ask for help, and for volunteers to help scope and solve those problems.
Go to Solve for Good
DSSG Summer
Fellowship
DSSG Summer Fellowship is our flagship 3-month summer program to train aspiring data scientists to work on machine learning, data science, and AI projects with social impact in close collaboration with governments and NGOs.
Go to DSSG Fellowship
DSSGx Chapters
Local DSSGx chapters that share our mission and are part of our global community
More information
Aequitas
An example of our suite of open-source tools to audit data science systems for bias, equity, and transparency.
More information
Featured projects
Browse all of our Data science for Social Good projects
Fellowship Project
Ocean at risk: fishing risk framework
Fellowship Project
Ocean at risk: fishing risk framework
Developing a Fishing Risk Framework from Satellites and Ocean Data
Fellowship Project
Improving traffic safety through video-analysis
Fellowship Project
Improving traffic safety through video-analysis
Our team is building a video-processing pipeline to extract structured information from raw traffic footage
Fellowship Project
Reducing Corruption in Public Procurement Processes
Fellowship Project
Reducing Corruption in Public Procurement Processes
The goal of this project is to find and reduce potential anomalies in public tender documents and improve the quality of public procurement
Fellowship Project
Predicting long term unemployment in Portugal
Fellowship Project
Predicting long term unemployment in Portugal
The purpose of the project is to better identify individuals at high risk of long-term unemployment
Our
Partners
We partner with universities, non-profits, government agencies, and corporations globally to create and run a wide-range of programs and projects at the intersection of data science and social good.
Get involved
You can get involved as an individual or an organization. We welcome volunteers, supporters, partners, and funders to help us create social impact through data science and AI responsibly and ethically.
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