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Data Science Mercenaries Making the World a Better Place
Fast Company's profile of organizations applying data science skills to social sector problems — an early piece on the 'data for good' movement before DataKind and similar organizations had scaled. Reflects the 2013 optimism that data science talent could be redirected toward civic and humanitarian impact.
First Targeted Ads, Now Data Scientists Think They Can Change the World
GigaOm piece on a wave of data scientists pivoting from ad targeting to social good applications — healthcare, education, poverty prediction. A 2013 snapshot of the idealism that accompanied the data science boom and the question of whether these techniques could address harder problems.