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DataKind: data scientists for social good

DataKind™ (formerly known as Data Without Borders) brings together leading data scientists with high impact social organizations through a comprehensive, collaborative approach that leads to shared insights, greater understanding, and positive action through data in the service of humanity.

We are living inside a data revolution that is transforming the way we understand and interact with each other and the world, and it has only just begun. Data has the potential to make hidden relationships crystal clear, to be a common language between people who might never have spoken, to inspire collaboration, to off er metrics for decision making, and to turn seemingly unrelated ideas into powerful insights that can solve the most complex and intractable problems we face.

DataKind™ is a community of pioneering data scientists with the talent, commitment, and energy to open the door and show us the way.

Saved 26 February 2013 / datakind.org ↗

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Data quality as fitness for use

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Data Science

While a lot of modern technology professions require a large range of skills (see The Rise and Fall of the Full-Stack Developer), the data scientist may have…

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Data science as a way out of academia

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