Carolina Ballroom
WITHDRAWN: Social Good, Meet Data Science (303476)
*Aleksandra Mojsilovic, IBM Research"We are experiencing a time when our lives and everything that surrounds us is captured digitally: Internet activity, video, customer transactions, surveys, health records, news, literature, scientific publications, economic data, weather data, geospatial data, stock market returns, telecommunication records, and government records to name a few. All of this data is at our fingertips, giving us an unprecedented opportunity to change the world for the better using Data Science. From reducing or eliminating inequalities, to improving access to health care and education, to reducing pollution and our carbon footprint, there is the potential to move the needle on seemingly insurmountable issues.
In her talk, Aleksandra will talk about ""Data for Good"", the rapidly growing movement to apply Data Science skills to problems that uplift humanity. Social good projects are highly inter-disciplinary in nature, and span a range of new application areas, which presents Data Science practitioners with diverse opportunities to get involved, to volunteer, mentor, learn new skills, solve interesting problems and network, and while doing so, help create a better world. "