2. On the Phone…
Matt Gee
Research Fellow, Urban Center
for Computation and Data
Founding Organizer of Data Science for
Social Good Summer Fellowship &
Center for Impact Measurement
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3. Outline
• Overview of the Fellowship Program
• Project Examples from Summer 2013
• What We’re Looking for in Project Partners?
• How we’d like to partner with badging research
and implementation?
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4. Goals
• Train Students
• Build Internal Agency
Capacity
• Solve Real Problems
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8. Variety of Project Areas
Economic
Education Development Transportation
Health
Energy
EMR Data
Smart
Meter
Data
Education
Records
Housing &
Community
Data
Predicting
Heart Attacks
Discovering
Energy Savings
Opportunities
Predicting
College Underenrollment
Targeting
Foreclosures for
Redevelopment
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Bus GPS
&
Ridership
Data
Simulating Better
Routes to Reduce
Overcrowding
Disaster
Relief
Social
Media
Data
Identifying
Damage in RealTime
9. DSSG 2014 By the Numbers
50 Fellows
8 Mentors
15 Projects
$1.5 Million
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10. Ideal 2014 Project Partners
Have:
1. An interesting problem that can be tackled
using data science, machine
learning, predictive analytics, etc.
2. Resources and interest in interacting with us
regularly throughout the summer
3. The ability to use the Fellows’ solution to
make a meaningful social impact
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11. Problem Types
• Text Analysis/NLP
• Clustering / Finding Structure in Unstructured Data
• Prediction
• Targeting
• Large-scale experimentation/behavior change
• Real-time analysis of large data for decision support
• Data integration
• Novel uses of new data sources
• Anonymization of unstructured data
• Anomaly detection
• Signal processing
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13. Our process with project
partners
January - February
Initial
Meetings
and Project
Scoping
Data Audit
& Project
Refinement
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March
April
May
Project
Selection &
Contract
Drafting
Finalized
Data
Sharing
Agreement
Meet with
project
mentor
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June
Fellowship
begins
14. DSSG Summer Timeline
12 Weeks
June
Week
1
Week
2
July
Week
3
Week
4
Pitch Solution
to Partners
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5
Week
6
August
Week
7
Present
Prototype
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8
Week
9
Week
10
Week
11
Week
12
Project
Presentations
15. How the Fellowship Works
Prototype
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16. Network Analysis
for Non-Profits
Mining the Web for Fun and Non-Profits
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Animals
Cancer
Diabetes
Autism
Parkinson’s
Similarity
Metrics
Organs
Environment
Music
HIV/AIDS
Gay Rights
Human Rights
Trafficking
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18. Twitter-Informed
Disaster Relief
Extracting Useful Information from Social Media During a Crisis
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19. Flooding bad up
and down sides of
Green River Rd
Too little information
Too many tweets
Tweedr
1. Classify & Filter
2. Cluster & Merge
3. Extract &
Geolocate
User Interface &
Map
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21. Anthony
Benjamin
• PSAT: 120
• GPA: 2.9
• PSAT: 120
• GPA: 2.9
…went to a college with
an average SAT of
~1250
…went to a college with
an average SAT of
~1650
• One parent went to college
• 2/3 of high school poor
• Both parents went to college
• 1/3 of high school poor
• White
• Black
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Give 2 sentences on each projectDo thatAsk Fen: should we call in later
The
It is a one-of-a-kind program that brings together some of the most talented students from the best universities in the world, PhD, Masters and Advanced Undergraduates in Computer Science, Statistics, economics, public policy, Physics, and Mathematics, and puts them in interdisciplinary teams to tackle real-world, high-impact problems for governments and non-profits.
Each team of fellows is lead by an experienced mentor from industry or academia. These mentors work with the fellows and the partners to ensure that their work is on point and on time.
Last year we worked with a total of 22 partners to scope projects for the summer fellowship. These partners included Federal, state and local agencies, as well as non-profit organizations and foundations.
Topics ranged from public safety, to disaster response, community development to energy, health to education. For example, we
50 people, 1.5 million
Last year we scoped several potential projects with federal agencies and learned a lot about some of the main challenges in working with federal partners. This experience will help us better avoid major hurdles as we work with you to scope projects.
The p
The process that fellowship projects go through is hightly collaborative. Fellows will spend time meeting with you to understand the problem you want solved and the data you have available, then work collaboratively in a shared space to develop creative solutions to your problem, and periodically presenting you with new insights and prototype solutions several times throughout the summer. Feedback from the partner throughout the project is critical to the success of the project and we ask that partners have a dedicated point of contact that can provide 10 hours a week to the project for the first two weeks, then 2 hours a week to the project afterward.
