Data Science for Social Good: a Presentation by Lisa Green and Rayid Ghani

A growing number of institutions and companies have moved to a data-driven approach to face increasingly complex research questions. An investigation of social change mechanisms has become particularly important for policy making, and data science provides a great opportunity to Social Good Organizations to work out successful strategies and achieve their goals. But who will bring together Social Good Organizations and data scientists?

Lisa Green and Rayid Ghani launched the non-profit organization, Data Science for Social Good (DSSG), whose primary aim is to implement an online marketplace for matching volunteer data scientist with social good projects. The platform combines community-based motivation and expert cooperation, innovative tools and parallel workflow. If you are a data scientist, a worker for social good (or both), but especially a person who cares and developed a curiosity for this topic, you must come and listen to Lisa and Rayid! We are looking forward to seeing you at the talk!

Speaker: Lisa Green & Rayid Ghani

Essential bio: Lisa is the executive director of the non-profit organization Data Science for Social Good, and advisor of Domino Data Lab. Rayid is a renowned data scientist and started the project Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship.

Doors will open and snacks and drinks will be served at 18:30. The talk will start at 19:00.

Venue: BT-Centre HQ office in A1 (1st floor event centre).

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