To strengthen the connection between the statistical community and National Science Foundation, we continue the series that poses questions to NSF program officers and awardees. This month’s program officer is Jemin George from the NSF Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships and the awardee responses are from Yuzhou Chen of Temple University.
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Peace-Work: Crowd-Sourcing Statistical Volunteering for the Greater Good
Peace-Work is an all-volunteer cooperative of statisticians, data scientists, and other researchers applying analytics to issues in issue-driven advocacy and social justice.
StatCom at Purdue University: How We Do Good
This organization is a decentralized network of university chapters that provides free statistical consulting services to local governments and other nonprofits.
Home for the Holidays: Data for Good Researchers Fight Homelessness
Homelessness is an area in which analytics is much needed but often in short supply. Shelters and other organizations providing direct services to individuals many times have good data but no one to analyze it. Though they are making great strides to help, they could do even more with statistical support.