[Colloquium] 3/29: Civic Data & Technology Clinic Showcase (Winter 2021)

[Rob Mitchum]

*Civic Data and Technology Clinic Showcase – Winter 2021*

*March 29, 2021 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMZoom*
*Register Here
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/civic-data-and-technology-clinic-showcase-winter-2021-tickets-144714776793>*

Data science, with the right mix of technical expertise and real-world
experience, can be a powerful tool to address pressing social and
environmental challenges. This winter, a partnership with the 11th Hour
Project <http://www.11thhourproject.org/> continued support for the new *Civic
Data and Technology Clinic at the University of Chicago*, a project-based
course that paired teams of student data scientists with organizations
working in social and economic justice, sustainability, and climate change.
In this webinar, hear from students, faculty, and researchers about their
work this quarter in collaboration with Eureka Recycling
<https://eurekarecycling.org/>, Inclusive Development International
<https://www.inclusivedevelopment.net/>, and Hohonu <https://www.hohonu.io/>.
Lightning talks will feature projects including an application to track
palm oil deforestation in South Eastern Asia, a system for monitoring
recycling logistics and trends in the cities and towns surrounding
Minneapolis, a data processing pipeline for aggregating water level data
across the country, and a project to collate, index, and serve data on
international development finance around the world.

The Civic Data and Technology Clinic and this event are supported by the Harris
School for Public Policy <https://harris.uchicago.edu/>, the Center for
Data and Computing <https://cdac.uchicago.edu/>, and the Master of Science
in Computational Analysis & Public Policy program
<https://capp.uchicago.edu/>.

The Civic Data and Technology Clinic at the University of Chicago partners
with public interest organizations, leveraging data science research and
technology to address pressing social and environmental challenges. The
Clinic also provides students with exposure to real-world projects and
problems that transcend the conventional classroom experience including: 1)
working with imperfect datasets, applying models and algorithms to
real-world data, and navigating security and privacy issues; and 2)
communicating results to a diverse set of stakeholders (e.g., industry,
public interest, government agencies), and translating information into
actionable insights, policy briefs and software prototypes. The Clinic is
an experiential project-based course where students work in teams as data
scientists with real-world clients under the supervision of instructors.
Students will be tasked with producing key deliverables, such as data
analysis, open source software, as well as final client presentations, and
reports.

Read more about the Civic Data & Technology Clinic
<https://cdac.uchicago.edu/news/new-clinic-leverages-data-science-for-social-and-environmental-causes/>
.


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*Rob Mitchum*

*Associate Director of Communications for Data Science and Computing*
*University of Chicago*
*rmitchum at uchicago.edu <rmitchum at ci.uchicago.edu>*
*773-484-9890*
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