Data Science for Social Good (DSSG), a summer program at UW's eScience Institute, partners up interdisciplinary student teams with professional data scientists and subject-matter experts to tackle social issues that really matter. This year the theme was "Urban Science"—so for ten weeks, four teams with students from around the country combined data, tools, and programming to tackle social issues such as transit system planning, disease control and prevention, tracking of socioeconomic status in developing countries, and sidewalk mapping for accessible route planning. The results are quite impressive.
