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Data 4 Good in the Triangle
Are you interested in using your skills to make an impact on the communities where we live? Let’s talk!
Analytics>Forward Session Pitch
http://analyticsforward.org/session-pitch-data-4-good-in-the-triangle/
Are you interested in using your skills to make an impact on the communities where we live? Let’s talk!
Analytics>Forward Session Pitch
http://analyticsforward.org/session-pitch-data-4-good-in-the-triangle/
Data 4 Good in the Triangle
Published on Nov 18, 2015
Data 4 Good in the Triangle
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Data 4 Good in the Triangle
Analytics>Forward
Data 4 Good in the Triangle
Are you interested in using your skills to make an impact on the communities where we live? Let’s talk!
Analytics>Forward Session Pitch
http://analyticsforward.org/session-pitch-data-4-good-in-the-triangle/
Are you interested in using your skills to make an impact on the communities where we live? Let’s talk!
Analytics>Forward Session Pitch
http://analyticsforward.org/session-pitch-data-4-good-in-the-triangle/
Photo by Mykl Roventine
Zeydy Ortiz, Ph. D.
Twitter: @DrZeydy, LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin/in/zortiz
Thanks for attending the session. Please connect on LinkedIn or follow me on Twitter.
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"We have an incredible opportunity to unleash the power of data to CREATE BETTER GOVERNMENT, BUILD BETTER SERVICES for our citizens, and UNLOCK NEW ECONOMIC INNOVATIONS.”
- Dr. DJ Patil, US Chief Data Scientist
Quote from "Putting the Power of Data to Work for America"
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/02/25/putting-power-data-work-america
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/02/25/putting-power-data-work-america
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Challenges
- "Policy and funding informed by anecdotal evidence, not data"
- "Asking narrow, limited questions (for grant funding)"
- "Data is dirty and spread across different systems"
Challenges from local government officials expressed at the Triangle Open Data Day 2015
Photo by *Tom*
ibmhadoop.challengepost.com
ChallengePost hosts competitions including data challenges.
Submissions for the IBM competition are no longer accepted but check out the videos for ideas of what could be done with local data for future challenges.
Submissions for the IBM competition are no longer accepted but check out the videos for ideas of what could be done with local data for future challenges.
kaggle.com/competitions
Some of the kaggle data challenges are for social good.
www.drivendata.org/competitions
New site hosting competitions
2015cityinnovation.populr.me
City of Raleigh, City and County of Durham participating in this Campaign.
Proposals due March 27.
Proposals due March 27.
ncdatapalooza.com
DataJam will be May 16 at The Frontier @ RTP.
This year's focus: public safety and justice, health, and economic development
This year's focus: public safety and justice, health, and economic development
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citycampnc.org
Work directly with government officials to improve quality of life in our cities.
Looking for volunteers!
Looking for volunteers!
3. Organizing weekend workshops
to help local agencies tackle data challenges
Similar concept to CityCampNC but with focus on addressing data challenges
Data Kind Data Dives
DataKind Data Corps
Moving forward
- Establish a steering committee
- Connect with local agencies
- Connect with sponsoring organizations
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Get Involved!
Please fill out the form: http://goo.gl/forms/WFQAKFzdcU
Let me know if you have trouble accessing it.
Let me know if you have trouble accessing it.
