Final Project Resources

Goals

• Broadcast: Find a built-in audience for your data science skills showcase
• Motivate: Identify a subject matter that will remain compelling when the bug-checking gets boring
• Connect: Anticipate (or find) a client or client pool with a need you can help meet in exchange for experience and references.

Curated Data Projects (Friends of Dave or Ed or the GA)

• Crisis Text Line
• Knewton
• Vizzuality
• Oxfam -- Measures of Inequality

Timely Data Topics

• Climate Change
• Ukraine
• Polio Outbreaks
• Wealth Inequality
• World Cup

Data Sources

• Wolfram Alpha
• Quandl
• Datamob
• Factual
• Metro Boston Data Common
• Census.gov
• Data.gov
• Dataverse Network
• Infochimps
• Linked Data
• Guardian DataBlog
• Data Market
• Reddit Open Data
• Climate Data Sources
• Climate Station Records
• CDC Data
• World Bank Catalog
• Free SVG Maps
• UK Office for National Statistics
• StateMaster

Open or Social Impact Data Organizations:

• data.gov dataset search

Open Data Institutue

Code Montage

• List of Code Montage Projects you can contribute to

Approaches

Identify Upcoming Conferences in your Area of Interest

Global Health and Poverty

• Social Data Interoperability
• Human and Animal Health

Social & Economic Equity

• CatchaFire Project: This project will save us $6,000, allowing us to develop the independence of 4,000 low-income women and their families.

Eating Habits

• Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) to Combat Obesity, Heart Disease and Cancer

Health Choices

• Health Disparities Database - Amazing list of resources
• UK Food Statistics
• CDC Healthcare Data and Statistics
• CDC Disparities Analysis

Education

• 826
• Explore and Mine Kahn Academy Data