Data Science for Good

What's the difference between a commercial data science project and a Data Science project for social benefit? Often so-called Data Science for Good projects involve a throwing together of many people from different backgrounds under a common motivation to have a positive effect.We talk to a Data Science team that was formed to tackle the unemployment crisis that is coming out of the pandemic and help people to find excellent jobs in different industries for which they have a good skills match.We interview Erika Gravina, Rajwinder Bhatoe and Dehaja Senanayake about their story helping to create the Job Finder Machine with the Emergent Alliance, DataSparQ, Reed and Google.Further InformationProject: Job Finder Machine Project Group: Emergent Alliance and DataSparQShout out: Code First Girls for fantastic courses, mentoring and support for women in tech and data scienceSome links above may require payment or login. We are not endorsing them or receiving any payment for mentioning them. They are provided as is. Often free versions of papers are available and we would encourage you to investigate.Interview date: 25 March 2021Recording date: 13 May 2021Intro audio Music 4 Video Library (Patreon supporter)Thanks for joining us in the DataCafé. You can follow us on twitter @DataCafePodcast and feel free to contact us about anything you've heard here or think would be an interesting topic in the future.