Shifting political agendas can lead to funding changes, resulting in the reduction or even elimination of staff supporting critical data. Learn about data resiliency in this month’s Stats4Good column.
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Data for Good: The Year in Review and 2024 Challenge Winners
In January, David Corliss highlighted a group of issues as top priorities for the Data 4 Good community in 2024. Here, he recognizes outstanding accomplishments in each of the five areas.
Storytelling with Data for Good Visualizations
David Corliss explores how effective data visualization can amplify the impact of your work and how clear and purposeful visuals can convey complex ideas.
Global Data for Good Data Sources: A World of Opportunity
The Data for Good community is experiencing incredible growth in the availability and quality of global data, benefiting researchers in academia, government, and industry. Here, David Corliss highlights data resources to empower everyone, from seasoned researchers to students.
The 2024 Challenge List: This Year’s Most Important Questions in Data for Good
This annual call to action highlights a challenge in five areas: biostatistics; environmental advocacy; human rights; data; and organization and infrastructure. Learn how you can tackle one or more.
COVID on the Cusp: Data for Good Research Expands as Pandemic Phase Ends
With the COVID-19 pandemic phase winding down, now is the time to act on what we have learned from this crisis—the Stats4Good top challenge in biostatistics for 2023.
Finding Your Voice in Data for Good
David Corliss uncovers how science is not enough. Data for Good needs directors just as much as data, advocates as well as algorithms, and socializing the work in addition to the science.
Data for Good: The Year in Review
David Corliss looks back on 2021 and discusses both the challenges and opportunities the Data for Good community had.
Saving Endangered Languages with AI and the Science of Communication
David Corliss tells us that using AI to save a threatened language from extinction can save the culture itself.
Data4Good Goes Back to School: Capstone Projects for the Greater Good
Five great students from different backgrounds and unique skills, all working with one goal in mind: identify risk factors and hotspots for human trafficking in Appalachian Ohio. What brought this amazing D4G team together? A capstone project.