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").
Global Fishing Watch
Global Fishing Watch is a collaboration among SkyTruth, Oceana, and Google to map and measure fishing activity worldwide using data from the Automatic Identification System (AIS), a ship-tracking syst...
Mobile Data for Social Good report
UN report of 200 mobile data for social good projects
Strava Metro
Metro is the largest active transportation dataset on the planet.
Pew Research Center data
Pew Research Center makes most of its datasets available for download once reporting has been completed for a given study. Here's how to find and access our data.
China Green Horizon
China Green Horizon is a project between Beijing’s municipal government and IBM Research to improve the accuracy of air quality assessments.
Streetcaster
Supernormal explored an algorithm that integrates social equity as a key variable in prioritizing infrastructural replacements and repairs.
Global Forest Watch
Global Forest Watch collects crowdsourced, geographic data to track environmental degradation around the world.
DataKind
Harnessing the power of data science in the service of humanity.
Supernormal
Supernormal is an architecture, urban design, and research firm investigating the inevitable overlap of cultural and digital practice.
Data for Good group
We are a collective of passionate socially minded people who are empowering social change makers to be better by allowing their data to speak to them.
The CivicLab
Innovating for democracy
InBloom
Initiated in 2011 through $100 million in seed money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, inBloom was a nonprofit student data repository that made clea...
Catalist
Catalist compiles, enhances, stores, and dynamically updates data on over 256 million unique voting-age individuals across all 50 states and the District of Columbia
Census Hard to Count Maps
Mapping Hard to Count (HTC) Communities for a Fair and Accurate 2020 Census
Enexis Open Data Agenda
Enexis, a Dutch energy company, makes anonymized data about residential gas and electric energy use publically available via its website.
DataKind Data Dives
Whether we’re finding the most efficient way to deliver food aid, streamlining the process for benefits access, or simply finding ways to serve more people with fewer resources, the DataKind Community...
Facebook, OECD and World Bank Measuring Business Sentiment
Facebook, World Bank and the OECD launched a measure of business sentiment based on a “Future of Business Survey” questioning companies that use their Facebook pages to connect with customers.
Data Science for Social Good, UChicago
Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social...