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Introducing Data Science for Social Impact
Jan 31, 2019
By Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation While private-sector businesses have been building and deploying data science capabilities for many years in the tech age, most organizations in the non-profit, civic, and public sectors are far behind. They have a strong appetite to use…News Topics: Computational and Data SciencesSocial Science
ICS Symposium 2018 to explore big data and computational research
Feb 8, 2018
In today’s society, data is being collected everywhere, all the time—from your phone, from your car, in hospitals, in the workplace. Data has the potential to solve major social problems. But to make sense of such massive quantities of data, researchers must find innovative methods to gather and…