DataDive!

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Hey Data Do-Gooders!

The much-awaited event of the year is here: DataDive!

A DataDive is a weekend-long, marathon-style event where teams of volunteers work together to help mission-driven, social change organizations do initial data analysis, exploration, and prototyping. We’re not only excited about the variety of problems we are addressing but most importantly for the amazing organization with whom we’re partnering: Antara Foundation, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, Karnataka Learning Partnership, and Pollinate Energy.

Volunteers of all skill levels are welcome!

Agenda

Day 1: Saturday, June 3th

10:00 am - 10:30 am : Doors open, Sign-In
10:30 am - 10:45 am : Introduction to DataKind
10:45 am - 11:00 am : Code of Conduct
11:00 am - 11:45 am : Debrief on projects and talks by non-profits
11:45 am - 12:00 pm : Formation of teams
12:00 am - 01:30 pm : Project teams start working on their respective projects
01:30 pm - 02:30 pm : Lunch
02:30 pm - 04:30 pm : Open round-tables and data diving
04:30 pm - 05:00 pm : DataCorps Talk: Gravity & Story Generator
05:00 pm - 06:00 pm : Data-diving continues
06:00 pm - 07:00 pm : Share back progress and networking

Day 2: Sunday, June 4th

10:00 am - 10:30 am: Brief review from Team Leads
10:30 am - 01:30 am: Data-diving
01:30 pm - 02:30 pm: Lunch
02:30 pm - 04:45 pm: Teams review & fine-tune for share-back
04:45 pm - 05:00 pm: Thoughtworks' slot
05:00 pm - 06:30 pm: Presentations from teams to social organizations
06:30 pm - 06:45 pm: Value Awards Review + new winner announcement
06:45 pm - 07:00 pm: Share back & Vote of Thanks

About our nonprofit partners:

Antara Foundation (http://www.antarafoundation.org/)

The Antara Foundation works on maternal and child health and nutrition, in partnership with the government of Rajasthan. They focus on improving skills of frontline workers infrastructure, equipment, and supplies at facilities, among other interventions. With DataKind Bangalore, Antara is looking to develop actionable dashboards to track changes in 5 indicators (updated monthly) for health sub-centers for select districts in Rajasthan.

Key Skills: React.js, NVD3.js, Python, Jupyter, Mapping

Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) (http://www.humanrightsinitiative.org/)

Headquartered in New Delhi, India, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has been championing the cause of right to information and justice since 1987. In its journey to improve access to information and justice for all, CHRI will now partner with DataKind Bangalore to get insights into the legal aid data and understand how different states and districts adhere to the NALSA regulations. This will help CHRI enhance their data-driven, evidence-based research and reporting.

Key Skills: R, Python, Javascript

Karnataka Learning Partnership (https://klp.org.in/)

Karnataka Learning Partnership has developed a public platform for all the stakeholders involved in primary education to contribute to the cause of building better schools and providing access to education in the state of Karnataka. At DataKind, we are looking to assist Karnataka Learning Partnership in a variety of projects—from detecting anomalies in data to building prescriptive and predictive reports.

Key Skills: Python, D3.js, Jupyter, React.js

Pollinate Energy (https://pollinateenergy.org/)

Pollinate Energy—a social business with operations in Melbourne, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Lucknow—works with people living in urban slums in India and helps them transition to affordable, solar-powered lanterns, cooktops, fans, and water filters. Pollinate Energy will partner with DataKind Bangalore to address the challenge of detecting various urban poor communities via satellite images and other data proxies.

Key Skills: Python, Machine Learning, Satellite Imaging, Computer Vision

Event sponsorship:

Special thanks to our host and event sponsor, ThoughtWorks (https://www.thoughtworks.com/)!

FAQs

Unlike a hackathon, the goal is not (necessarily) to create an app. Instead it is to work with teams of experts to understand a truly difficult problem through data. You could end up with a visualization, an analysis, some graphs, or even just some new datasets by the end of the event, and all of those are fantastic results!

We do not assign you to a problem. We want you to work with the problem and data you feel most passionate about, so come with an open mind and be ready to learn.

You do not have to stay the entire weekend to participate in the event. We hope that you will find a project you can dig into, but you are always welcome to come and go as you please.

You do not have to work on the same project for the whole weekend. Again, we hope that you will find a project to work on to completion, but if at any point you feel like you want to change simply let the ambassador from those teams know.

We do not provide any hardware or software for you to use. We'll have the data and some services set up ("Google Drive, Trello, Github"), but otherwise, you should bring your own laptop and come ready to use whatever data tools you like.

Folks who couldn’t attend our earlier events can also directly join us for the DataDive!

Can't wait to see you all there!