Data science for social good
Data science is used to "unify statistics, data analysis, machine learning and their related methods" to "understand and analyze actual phenomena" using data. (Hayashi, Chikio, 1996. "What is Data Science? Fundamental Concepts and a Heuristic Example").
Mastodon C
Assure brighter futures for children through data-informed strategic planning.
Sudan Witness
Sudan Witness was launched in April 2023, and monitors, analyses, verifies, and archives information pertaining to human rights interferences and conflict incidents in Sudan’s current conflict.
Data Umbrella
Data Umbrella is a global community for underrepresented persons in data science.
ShareProgress
Creative Tech and Analytics for Good
Good Jobs First
Good Jobs First is a national policy resource center that promotes corporate and government accountability in economic development.
Data Friendly Space (DFS)
We envision a future where technology and data power positive social change
Factstream AI
FactStream AI utilizes advanced artificial intelligence to simplify access to essential legal information for newcomers and new community members across Europe.
Coders Beyond Borders
Coders Beyond Borders: Empowering newcomers with essential tech skills for seamless integration and success in Europe’s tech landscape.
Baseline vulnerable road user injury risk in multiple U.S. dense urban driving environments
Waymo partnered with dashcam company Nexar to analyze 500 million miles of driving, including 335 crashes, to create the 'largest ever’ dataset of pedestrian and cyclist injuries
Diagonal Works
We strive to support the development of more equitable and inclusive places through our belief in open, collaborative and data informed urbanism.
Landlord Mapper
Landlord database & interactive map to promote property ownership transparency in rental markets
Census data for community action
Data 4 Public Good
Data 4 Public Good is a collective space where we share insights, learnings, and have conversations on topics including; Digital justice, Afrofuturism, Data and data privacy, AI and much more. We aim...
Data For Crisis
A collaborative work between DW Akademie and SocialLab to provide credible raw and aggregated data from Social Networks about crisis-related topics like COVID and Migration to support media practition...
Data Science for Social Good (Portugal)
Ajudamos organizações sem fins lucrativos, não governamentais e governamentais a aproveitar o poder dos seus dados, para melhorar o seu impacto na comunidade.
data.org Guide Finder
Use the Guide Finder to explore proposed approaches to common data for social impact challenges.
Riding Forward: Overhauling Citi Bike’s Contract for Better, More Equitable Service
This report reviews Citi Bike’s performance to-date and recommends a comprehensive contract overhaul to ensure more reliable and equitable service, with a strategic mix of performance standards, atten...
Recidiviz
We are a non-profit that partners with state criminal justice agencies to advance their use of data and reduce incarceration.
AQI to Cigarette
This reveals the equivalent cigarette intake based on Air Quality Index (AQI) and exposure time, offering a powerful wake-up call to the health impacts of poor air quality.
Data Driven Detroit
Metro Detroit's Community Data Hub
Aquaya
Aquaya is a data-driven nonprofit organization that is dedicated to improving safe water and sanitation access in low-resource settings.
Creating a better justice system with data
Exygy's collaboration with the CROP Organization and their work aggregating reentry data across the state of California.
The Center for New Data
The Center for New Data is a non-profit using big data to build a stronger democracy.
The Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance
The Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance is identifying 100 mayors that are the most sophisticated, ambitious, and advanced at harnessing data and help them set a new standard for local governm...
Data in the ATL
PIDLit’s Data in the ATL and Data Empowered Events series features local and global professionals and social justice advocates who use data analysis & visualization in their daily work and careers.
IDinsight
IDinsight is a mission-driven global advisory, data analytics, and research organization that helps global development leaders maximize their social impact.
Predicting Well Groundwater Quality Using Cloud-Based Machine Learning: DataKind San Francisco Partners with Aquaya and DataKind
A writeup of the partnership
Police Scorecard
We analyzed data on 13,147 US police departments.
Case Western Reserve Certificate in Data Sciences for Social Impact
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and the Case School of Engineering, two of Case Western Reserve University's top schools, have developed a Certificate in Data Scie...
NYU Public Safety Lab
Using data + social science to support communities' efforts to improve equity and efficiency in public safety outcomes
Deon
deon is a command line tool that allows you to easily add an ethics checklist to your data science projects. We support creating a new, standalone checklist file or appending a checklist to an existin...
Equitech Futures' Civic Tech Institute
The Civic Tech Institute at Equitech Futures empowers leaders in the social sector - governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises - with the data and technology skills critical to achieving impact...
Data Activism program for Cambridge Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program
six-week Data Activism curriculum to equip students with critical-thinking skills so they feel prepared to utilize data science to challenge social injustice and empower their community
Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism | Putting Local Data to Work
In its latest program to support local efforts to leverage data in community change, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (Urban) awarded a total of $1.5 million to 38 organizati...
Community Lattice
Community Lattice is a social enterprise that helps communities understand and optimize land revitalization programs, like EPA Brownfields, as a pathway to environmental and climate justice.
Wicked Problems Might Inspire Greater Data Sharing
A report on 'data for good' efforts by Susan Ariel Aaronson, George Washington University
The Turing Way: Community-led guides for data science and open research
Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrate...
DataKind UK
We help social change organisations use data science
Dark Data Project
The Dark Data Project helps organizations uncover, deobfuscate, semantify and analyze problematic datasets
Isahit
Ethical data labelling platform for AI & data processing
Polaris
Polaris holds the largest known data set on human trafficking in North America, which grew out of more than a decade of operating the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline.
Eduplana
Eduplana is a civic tech organization that uses data to advocate for quality education in Nigeria. We believe every citizen should have equal access to quality education with no bias on their location...
Pulse Lab Jakarta
Pulse Lab Jakarta is a joint data innovation facility of the United Nations (Global Pulse) and the Government of Indonesia (via the Ministry of National Development Planning, Bappenas).
ANCIR Investigative Lab (iLab)
The ANCIR iLab uses forensic data science techniques to expose the networks that disseminate and amplify misinformation, disinformation, and toxic content (such as hate speech or extremism) with a spe...
Data Action: Using Data for Public Good
Book by Sarah Williams -- How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression.
Solve for Good
Solve for Good is the Data Science for Social Good Foundation's platform for social good organizations to post data projects they need help with, for volunteers to help scope those projects into well-...
Analytics Exchange
A community of practice for data analysts across City agencies that has since grown to over 800 members at more than 60 agencies.
Hyperobjekt
We are a digital agency focused on innovative work for social good.
Seam Social Labs
We are a group of badass scientists who use technology to empower communities across America.
data.org Resource Library
Practical information and inspirational ideas to help social impact organizations use data science to solve the world's biggest problems.