Each year, the Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange Immersion program recruits and pairs data scientist graduate students with global nonprofit organizations and municipalities. This year, the focus of the collaborations were to support citizen engagement in the public sector, with an eye towards building a more connected and sustainable future.
This year, three Immersion projects were presented at the annual Data for Good Exchange (D4GX) conference on Sunday, September 16th at Bloomberg’s Global Headquarters in New York City. They ranged from providing better ways for direct communication with civic leaders to helping innovative nonprofits safeguard valued cultural spaces and ecosystems. Nonprofit and municipal partners included New York City’s Billion Oyster Project, which supports clean water in the Harbor through education and activism; Love City Strong of the St. John in the US Virgin Islands, which aids in disaster response and recovery; and the City of Milan, which is working with Bloomberg Associates to build out a dashboard to support urgent citizen needs.
During this panel session, participating Immersion Day data scientists and leaders from their host organizations discussed their projects and lessons learned with NYC Media Lab Executive Director Justin Hendrix.
Panelists - Billion Oyster Project ([ Ссылка ]):
Heather Flanagan, Digital Learning Specialist, Billion Oyster Project
Rebecca Elyanow, Ph.D. Candidate, Computational Biology, Princeton University
Panelists - Love City Strong ([ Ссылка ]):
Stephen Libbey, Senior Product Manager, Love City Strong USVI
Amanda Ernlund, graduate research student, NYU Langone Medical Center
Jonathan Auerbach, Ph.D. Candidate, Statistics, Columbia University
Panelists - City of Milan ([ Ссылка ])
Dario Manuli, Bloomberg Associates / City of Milan
Luca Venturi, Ph.D. Candidate, Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Xavier Gonzalez, data scientist (Immersion Project alum)
Moderator: Justin Hendrix, Executive Director, NYC Media Lab
Learn more about the Data for Good Exchange at [ Ссылка ]. #d4gx
