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.”

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.”

Community

“We are growing a global community to collaborate on problems with a social impact.”

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.

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.

DSSGx Chapters

Local DSSGx chapters that share our mission and are part of our global community

Aequitas

An example of our suite of open-source tools to audit data science systems for bias, equity, and transparency.

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

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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

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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

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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 

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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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