We were very excited to get an email from Michael Mattmiller, the City of Seattle’s CTO, outlining aspects of Mayor Murray’s proposed 2017-18 budget presented to the city council. We thought it was worth quoting in full but wanted in…
Ignite Talk: The Data is In: (Top 5 Ways) How to Improve your Neighborhood Community’s Wellbeing
Our Executive Director Shelly Farnham gave an Ignite talk last week to a sold out house of over 800 people at Town Hall last week. Below is the video, and a slightly extended version of the talk in text. The Data Is…
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…
First Day at the Data Science for Social Good Incubator
Today is the first day of the DSSG Incubator. I gave a short presentation, including overview of Third Place and recent work informing this project, and got to meet all the students, and start planning the next ten weeks.…
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…