This summer nine inspiring researchers from around the world tackled two real world projects to create data science solutions for a better world. Due to COVID-19, the full-time three month placement is took place remotely as the Data Science for Social Good Summer Projects Programme, an adaptation of the Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship.
DSSGx UK took ran from 15th June – 5th September. It is an affiliate programme of the DSSG Foundation’s core summer fellowship in the US at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA. It was led by the Turing, in partnership with the University of Warwick.
The Summer Projects Closing Ceremony celebrates the exceptional work of this year’s cohort, and features insightful, short presentations on the challenges provided by the non-profit partners, Ofsted and the World Bank.
· Ofsted: Risk Assessing Early Years Child Care Providers
· The World Bank: Identifying and Analysing Corruption Risks in Public Administration
Viewers can also look forward to keynotes from Rayid Ghani (Chief Scientist at Obama for America 2012 campaign & founder of the DSSG) & Dr Indra Joshi (Director of Artificial Intelligence for NHSX and a founding ambassador of One HealthTech) as well as hearing from Pablo Seitz the Director of DNCP, one of the DSSGx project partners in 2019.
Agenda:
– Welcome (Michael Austin, Data Science for Social Good Project Manager)
– Introduction to the Data Science for Social Good Programme (Sebastian Vollmer, Director of the Data Study Groups)
– Introduction to Warwick University (Andy Lockett
Dean of Warwick Business School)
– Keynote – Rayid Ghani (Global Director, DSSG)
– Keynote – Dr Indra Joshi (Director of Artificial Intelligence for NHSX and a founding ambassador of One HealthTech)
– DSSGx UK 2019 project partner DNCP (Pablo Seitz, Director)
– Ofsted project presentation (Jenny Walker, Hubert Beres, Jenning Lim & Ioana Ciuca)
– World Bank project presentation (Yanhong (Billy) Zhao, Nitya Raviprakash, Brenda Jimenez, Paula Rodriguez & Jinyuan Qi)
– Closing Remarks – Adrian Smith (Director, The Alan Turing Institute)
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