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Activity Number: 44 - Creating Data for Good (D4G) Programs: Roadmap and Research Highlights
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Sunday, August 8, 2021 : 3:30 PM to 5:20 PM
Sponsor: Social Statistics Section
Abstract #316907
Title: Creating Data for Good (D4G) Programs: Roadmap and Research Highlights
Author(s): Sarah Stone* and Dan Richard* and Chiara Sabatti* and Cassandra Dorius* and Kit Rodolfa* and Dharma Dailey*
Companies: eScience Institute & UW Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) and University of North Florida and Stanford University and Iowa State University and Carnegie Mellon University and University of Washington
Keywords: data science; social good; experiential learning
Abstract:

There are nation-wide efforts to build data science education capacity outside of traditional curricula. These include not only open source and online educational resources, boot camps, advanced certificates, but also experiential learning programs such as University Washington’s Data Science for the Social Good and Data Science for the Public Good Young Scholars Program at University of Virginia. Pairing student fellows with data scientist mentors and project leads from academia, government, and non-profit organizations. These types of programs serve the dual purposes of advancing projects with positive societal impact and providing real-world data science training for students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Integrated stakeholder engagement is a hallmark of these programs.

Leveraging lessons learned from more than 10 university data for good programs, the goals of this session will include surfacing common challenges and better practices across these programs and sharing a roadmap of decision points for organizations interested in designing similar programs. Second, we will draw from these programs to highlight impactful research projects.


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