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How Data Clinic’s Open Source Tooling Supports Mission-Driven Organizations

Business + Management Data Science for Good East 2020posted by ODSC Community March 13, 2020

Kaushik Mohan is a speaker for ODSC East 2020. Be sure to check out his talk, “Open Source Tools for Social Impact,” there! In the following talk, he discusses Data Clinic’s open source tooling… As the data for good arm of the investment manager Two Sigma,... Read more

Diversity in Data Science: An In-Depth Look at the “Why” and “How”

Data Science for Good Featured Post Opinion Bias diversityposted by ODSC Team October 10, 2019

Ask anyone for a list of “buzzwords” and diversity is bound to show up high on the list. As a society, we’ve been discussing it for years; even the tech and data science industries come under scrutiny. In this article, we’ll dive deep into what diversity... Read more

Machine Learning Model Fairness in Practice

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Data Science for Good Modeling fairness fairness in machine learning Machine Learningposted by Jakub Czakon September 13, 2019

Editor’s Note: See Jakub’s talk about Machine Learning “Model Fairness in Practice” at ODSC West 2019 In the last few years, the interest around fairness in machine learning has been gaining a lot of momentum. Rightfully so: our models are becoming more and more prevalent in... Read more

How AI Is Revolutionizing Medicine

Business + Management Data Science for Good Healthcare ai in medicine Healthcareposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC September 10, 2019

There isn’t a field AI won’t touch, but one exciting trend is AI in medicine. It turns out — medical professionals have similar problems as data scientists: lots of tedious tasks, not enough time to get to higher-order ones. AI could change that. Medicine’s need for... Read more

How Are We Solving Inequality with AI?

Agriculture Automotive Business + Management Data Science for Good Education Featured Post Government Media Opinion AI Data Science for Good inequality solving inequality with aiposted by ODSC Team September 6, 2019

When people talk about artificial intelligence, they often praise it as an unemotional, efficient task manager, and, to an extent, that’s what it is. But when we think about it in bigger terms than Siri or Alexa, we can see real ways people are solving inequality... Read more

Using AI to Combat Deepfakes and Fake News

Data Science for Good Modeling deepfakes Fake Newsposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC September 4, 2019

AI is constantly in the news these days, identifying prospects for the technology doing both good and bad. One topic that’s generating a lot of buzz is the use of AI for creating “deepfakes,” a term originally coined in 2017. Deepfakes uses neural networks to combine... Read more

Telling Human Stories with Data

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Data Science for Good Data Visualization Modeling Europe 2019posted by Alan Rutter August 16, 2019

Editor’s Note: Be sure to attend Alan’s talk on this idea of telling human stories with data at ODSC Europe this November 19 – 22 in London! Register now for “Bringing Data to the Masses Through Visualization.” If you’re reading this and you’re part of the... Read more

The Interplay of Experimentation and ML to Aid in Repayment of Micro-Loans in Sub-Saharan Africa

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Data Science for Good Machine Learning Modeling Data Science for Good microloans MLposted by Brianna Schuyler August 16, 2019

Editor’s Note: Brianna is speaking at ODSC West 2019 and ODSC Europe 2019, see her talk “The Interplay of Experimentation and ML to Aid in Repayment of Micro-Loans in Sub-Saharan Africa” there Imagine through a twist of fate that rather than living the life that brought you... Read more

4 Examples of Businesses Solving Problems with AI

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Business + Management Conferences Data Science for Good ai for good West 2018posted by ODSC Team August 7, 2019

In her talk at ODSC West 2018, “Reality Check: How Businesses are using Human in the Loop Processes to Drive Real Value,” Alyssa Simpson Rochwerger, the VP of Product at Figure Eight, explains how companies can begin solving creating value and solving problems with AI. [Related... Read more

Watch: Using Data For Good

Conferences Data Science for Good Tech Updates east 2018posted by ODSC Team August 6, 2019

With Crisis Response and Disaster Maps, Facebook is providing real-time support to disaster response and aid providers—trying to use data for good. In this video from ODSC East 2018, Brandon Rohrer shares some examples of the information provided, the processing, algorithms and visualization methods behind it,... Read more