Final Project Resources

Impact Project Guidelines

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.

Timely Data Topics

• Climate Change
• Ukraine
• Polio Outbreaks
• Wealth Inequality

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