Although statisticians have been involved in various aspects of wildfire modeling for years, greater numbers of megafires, new data sources, and methodological advancements in statistics and data science are leading to increasing involvement.
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A Conversation with DataKind’s Executive Director, Jake Porway
Porway and David Corliss discuss COVID-19, police violence, protests, inequailty, and opportunities for Data for Good projects to help solve big problems.
HRDAG Answers Human Rights Questions on Large Scale
The Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) uses data science to answer questions about human rights on a large scale, from determining chain of command and accountability in international cases of genocide to evaluating whether artificial intelligence–based tools used by the US criminal justice system are fair.