This spring we had the opportunity to work with a student group at the UW for an iSchool capstone project. As a final project before graduation, a team of students created a general purpose network visualization for our Spokin communities using D3. They wrapped up the project with a poster and demo…
Introducing Spokin
The CTO of the City of Seattle saw our presentation of our community well-being report pages at the DSSG program, and asked that we demo Spokin and the community well-being report pages to the mayor’s office. We did this last week, here are the slides introducing Spokin. We also recently…
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…