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Data Science For Social Good

Explore 104 projects in the Data Science For Social Good category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

104 projects

Good Jobs First

Good Jobs First is a national policy resource center that promotes corporate and government accountability in economic development.

Washington, DC
1998

Uber data-sharing with governments

The ride-hailing company is working with DC to share dataโ€”and the much coveted curb.

Uber HQ, Market Street, San Francisco, CA, USA
2009
Uber

Housing Data Coalition

The Housing Data Coalition (HDC) is a group of individuals and organizations who collaborate on their use of public data to further housing justice in New York City.

50 Broad St, New York, NY 10004, United States
housing

InBloom

Initiated in 2011 through $100 million in seed money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, inBloom was a nonprofit student data repository that made cleaned, standardized school and student data available to third parties.

2011

Campaign OS

The All-in-One Campaign Management Dashboard for Democrats and Progressives

partisan

Open Cities Lab

Open Cities Lab is a non-profit open and non-partisan organisation that combines the use of action research, co-design, data science, and technology with civic engagement, to enable the development of inclusive cities and urban spaces.

153a Helen Joseph Road, Congela, Durban, South Africa
2015
Access to Information Community of Practice

Deon

deon is a command line tool that allows you to easily add an ethics checklist to your data science projects. We support creating a new, standalone checklist file or appending a checklist to an existing analysis in many common formats.

Data Haven

At DataHaven, our mission is to improve quality of life by collecting, interpreting and sharing public data for effective decision-making

New Haven, CT
1992

Landlord Mapper

Landlord database & interactive map to promote property ownership transparency in rental markets

Chicago, IL
city, housing, Sustainable cities and communities, landlord