Data Science for Social Good Scopeathon
Speaker
The Scopeathon for Social Good
When
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Where
In Person
Description
The Data Science for Social Good Lab, with the Block Center for Technology and Society and Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, is hosting a Scopeathon for Social Good at Carnegie Mellon University on February 7th and 8th, 2025. The event will take place in the evening of Friday Feb 7th and all day Saturday Feb 8th.
The Scopeathon for Social Good is a day-long training event where students and partners from government and nonprofit organizations will collaborate and learn how to scope an actionable data science/AI/ML project that can positively impact society. Unlike a typical “hackathon” where the point is to write code and “solve” a problem, the focus of the Scopeathon is to give participants hands-on experience with a critical part of the project that ideally happens before writing any code: understanding the problem and the role of technology in solving it.