Data Science for Social Good: Using Your Powers To Make a Social Impact!

The past few years have seen an increasing demand for machine learning/data mining/data science powers. That's wonderful for us "data scientists," but wouldn't the world be so much better if we also used our computational and analytical powers for social good? In this talk, I'll give examples from work going on around the world, including from the summer fellowship program we started at University of Chicago on "Data Science for Social Good," to show that there are a lot of important social problems in the world that could use our help-from helping students graduate high school to helping disaster victims to improving health.

Speaker: Rayid Ghani, University of Chicago