Rayid Ghani@rayidghani

Training Students to do Good with DataData Science for Social Good Fellowship

Rayid GhaniUniversity of Chicago

http://dssg.uchicago.edu/

550 Applicants from 34 countries ~200 Universities

36 fellowsComputer ScientistsStatisticiansEconomistsPublic Policy(and other computational and quantitative fields)

CMUU. of Chicago HarvardU. Of Wisconsin Madison UT AustinMITYaleITAMColumbiaNorthwestern

UIC

StanfordTechnionU of AlabamaGeorgia TechCambridgeUC IrvineU of MarylandU of MichiganStanfordWPI

The Eric & Wendy Schmidt

Data Science for Social GoodSummer Fellowship 2013

Rayid Ghani@rayidghani

By the Numbers

38 Fellows

6 Mentors

12 Projects

12 Weeks

Rayid Ghani@rayidghani

The Ideal Student

Making an Impact with Data

Computer Science &

ProgrammingStatistics &

Machine Learning

Econometrics & Social Science

Methods

DatabasesExperimental Design

Communication

Common Sense

Rayid Ghani@rayidghani

What do they need training in?

Tools• Python• R• DBs• SQL• MapReduce• Tableau, D3,

ggplot

Methods• Statistics• Machine

Learning• Econometrics• Experimental

Design• Social Sciences

Problem Solving Skills• Understanding• Mapping• Evaluation

Metrics

Rayid Ghani@rayidghani

Rayid Ghani@rayidghani

Rayid Ghani@rayidghani

The Eric & Wendy Schmidt

Data Science for Social GoodSummer Fellowship 2013

Rayid Ghani@rayidghani

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Brandon Willard

Research Consultant

Booth School of Business

Walter Dempsey

StatisticsUniversity of

Chicago

Andrés Akle Carranza

Applied MathInstituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Jordan Bates

Computer Science

Arizona State University

David Sekora

Computer Science

University of Chicago

14

Measuring Impacts on Children’s Health and Development

Evaluating HomeVisitation Programs

15

Code Blue PredictionUsing EMR Data

16

Machine Suggestions for Report Reviewing

Smarter Crisis Crowdsourcing

17

Targeting students at risk of not going to college

The Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship 2013

Rayid Ghani@rayidghani

Rayid Ghanirayid@uchicago.edu

For more information on the summer fellowshiphttp://dssg.uchicago.edu

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