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Data Science for Social Impact - Christine Cepelak

Jul 29, 2022
48:23

We talked about:

  • Christine’s Background
  • Private sector vs Public sector
  • Public policy
  • The challenges of being a community organizer
  • How public policy relates to political science
  • Programs that teach data science for public policy
  • Data science for public policy vs regular data science
  • The importance of ethical data science in public policy
  • How data science in social impact project differs from other projects
  • Other resources to learn about data science for public policy
  • Challenges with getting data in data science for public policy
  • The problems with accessing public datasets about recycling
  • Christine’s potential projects after Master’s degree
  • Gender inequality in STEM fields
  • Corporate responsibility and why organizations need social impact data scientists
  • What you need to start making a social impact with data science
  • 80,000 hours
  • Other use cases for public policy data science
  • Coffee, Ethics & AI
  • Finding Christine online


Links:

  • Explore some Data Science for Social Good projects: http://www.dssgfellowship.org/projects/
  • Bi-weekly Ethics in AI Coffee Chat: https://www.meetup.com/coffee-ethics-ai/
  • Make a Social Impact with your Job: https://tinyurl.com/80khours
  • Course in Data Ethics: https://ethics.fast.ai/
  • Data Science for Social Good Berlin: https://dssg-berlin.org/
  • CorrelAid: https://correlaid.org/
  • DataKind: https://www.datakind.org/
  • Christine's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinecepelak/
  • Christine's Twitter: https://twitter.com/CLcep 


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