This year we participated in the Microsoft “Hack for Good” subdivision of their oneweek hackathon, working with several people internal to Microsoft to explore a problem for Spokin. The Nonprofit Hackathon session was brought to us by Microsoft Philanthropies, the Garage and 501 Commons, hosted on the Microsoft Campus on May 23rd. Here was our…
Wrapping Up Our Community Wellbeing Report Pages Prototype at DSSG
During the summer of 2015, we were selected to participate in the University of Washington’s eScience Institute Data Science for Social Good summer incubator program, where we worked with an interdisciplinary group of graduate student fellows and faculty research scientists to develop an initial prototype of our proposed community well-being…
Participting in the Data Science for Social Good Incubator Program
We’ve been selected to participate in the Data Science for Social Good summer incubator program! It’s a really great opportunity for us to work with smart graduate students and faculty at the UW eScience Institute, while sitting side by side with three other selected projects leveraging data science for social good…
Recipient of Microsoft Azure for Research Award
I’m excited to announce we are a recipient of the Microsoft Azure for Research Award, which includes large allocations of Azure storage and compute resources for a period of a year. While at the iConference in March, I saw a demo of Azure’s machine learning for research functionality and found…
Innovative Community of Practice and Civic Tech in the Northwest
I gave a couple of talks in April discussing how to foster innovative communities of practice (one at the Cultural Congress hosted by the Washington State Arts Alliance, and one for the e-gov subcommittee of the CTTAB). Here are the slides as a PDF. Presentation highlights: Due to the ubiquity…
2015 iConference Social Media Expo — Open Government Data and Social Media
Yesterday we held our third Social Media Expo at the 2015 iConference, sponsored by FUSE Labs at Microsoft Research. This has been a great way for us to encourage interdisciplinary student teams to explore emerging themes in the field that are also of particular interest to FUSE Labs. The 2015…
Upcoming Seattle Open Data Day
I’ve been helping Seth Vincent (Code for Seattle) organize Seattle Open Data Day with Will Scott at the University of Washington. I strongly encourage you all to go to Seattle Open Data Day, an unconference on open data and civic technology. Held at the UW Computer Science Department on February…
Draft of paper Neighborhood Community Well-being and Social Media
With the transition leaving Microsoft Research and starting up Third Place Technologies, I have not had much time for revising this paper, but still wanted to throw it out for people to read if they are interested. This line of research has hugely influenced my own thinking in this space,…