January 17, 2018
Data Science for Social Good – Project Proposal Submission Information
2018 Data Science for Social Good summer program – Call for Proposals
Program Overview
The UW eScience Institute, in collaboration with the Cascadia Urban Analytics Cooperative, is excited to announce its fourth offering of the Data Science for Social Good summer program.
We invite short proposals for 10-week data-intensive research projects (June 11 – August 17) requiring collaboration in scalable data management, statistical analysis and machine learning, open source software development, cloud and cluster computing, and/or visualization. Accepted projects will be undertaken by a team of four interdisciplinary students and co-led by an external Project Lead identified in the proposal – usually the author(s) – and one or more Data Scientists in the eScience Institute.
We are inviting proposals that have an applied social good dimension and broadly address questions related to social science, human services, public policy, criminal justice, environmental impacts, and urban informatics. We welcome proposals submitted by academic researchers, public agencies, non-profit entities, and industry.
This program is inspired by our Data Science Incubator program as well as similar endeavors at the University of Chicago and Georgia Tech. The projects on those websites and especially the projects from our previous DSSG programs may serve as useful inspiration.
Important Dates
January 26th, 11am : 1-hour Project Proposal information session, Data Science Studio Meeting Room, 6th floor Physics/Astronomy Tower
February 25th: Proposal submissions due
March 19th: Short-list notification
June 11: Kickoff meeting
June 11th-Aug 17th – DSSG Program
For more information and proposal submission please visit: http://escience.washington.edu/dssg-proposal/
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
