Talking Data Without Borders at Pop!Tech

October 20th, 2011

I was honored to get to give a talk at PopTech about Data Without Borders as one of their Social Innovation Fellows this year. It was an incredible experience that I can never thank the good people at PopTech enough for. My 5 minutes of fame above!

http://www.marketsforgood.org/wordpress/doing-the-math-ourselves/ Doing The Math Ourselves

[...] Data Without Borders) and a self-described “data scientist with a social mission” offers one solution: a volunteer matching service that pairs nonprofit organizations with data scientists to help these [...]

I'm a data scientist and machine learning enthusiast living in New York City looking for new ways to help machines make sense of things for the greater good. I did some time in LA, worked in the New York Times R&D lab (#2 best job ever), and currently run DataKind, a non-profit committed to using data in the service of humanity (#1 best job ever). Irrepressibly curious, annoyingly enthusiastic.

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