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Community Spotlight: Paola Ruiz, Néstor González, Daniel Crovo
The Community Spotlight features fantastic members from our DrivenData community. Three members of the IGCPHARMA team, Paola Ruiz, Néstor González, and Daniel Crovo talk to us about data science, drug discovery, diverse databases and more!
Community Spotlight: Kirill Brodt
The Community Spotlight features fantastic members from our DrivenData community. Kirill Brodt, a doctoral student in computer graphics at the University of Montreal, talks animation, pose estimation, and data science challenges.
A production application to support survivors of human trafficking
DrivenData developed Freedom Lifemap, a digital tool designed to support survivors of human trafficking on their journey toward reintegration and independence.
(Tech) Infrastructure Week for the Nonprofit Sector
Reflections on how to build data and AI infrastructure in the social sector that serves the needs of nonprofits and their beneficiaries.
Meet the winners of Phase 2 of the PREPARE Challenge
Learn about how winners detected cognitive decline using speech recordings and social determinants of health survey data
AI sauce on everything: Reflections on ASU+GSV 2025
Data, evaltuation, product iteration, and public goods: reflections on the ASU+GSV Summit 2025.
Open-source packages for using speech data in ML
Overview of key open-source packages for extracting features from voice data to support ML applications
Getting started with LLMs: a benchmark for the 'What's Up, Docs?' challenge
An introduction to using large language models via the benchmark to a document summarization challenge.
Meet the Winners of the Goodnight Moon, Hello Early Literacy Screening Challenge
Learn about the results and winning methods from the early literacy screening challenge.
Crowdsourcing solutions for AI-assisted early literacy screening
DrivenData ran a machine learning competition to develop models for scoring audio recordings from literacy screener exercises completed by students in kindergarten through 3rd grade.
Where to find a data job for a good cause
Finding data jobs for good causes can be difficult. Learn strategies, job lists, and tips to find organizations with open positions working on causes you care about.
Meet the Winners of the Youth Mental Health Narratives Challenge
Learn about the winning solutions from the Youth Mental Health Challenge Automated Abstraction and Novel Variables Tracks
Meet the winners of the Forecast and Final Prize Stages of the Water Supply Forecast Rodeo
Learn about the winners and winning solutions from the final stages of the Water Supply Forecast Rodeo.
10 takeaways from 10 years of data science for social good
This year DrivenData celebrates our 10th birthday! We've spent the past decade working to use data science and AI for social good. Here are some lessons we've learned along the way.
Goodnight Moon, Hello Early Literacy Screening Benchmark
In this guest post from the MIT Gabrieli Lab, we'll show you how to get started with the literacy screening challenge!
Youth Mental Health: Automated Abstraction Benchmark
Learn how to process text narratives using open-source LLMs for the Youth Mental Health: Automated Abstraction challenge
Meet the winners of Phase 1 of the PREPARE Challenge
Learn about the top datasets sourced for Phase 1 of the PREPARE Challenge.
Teaching with DrivenData Competitions
Inspiration and resources for teaching students data science, machine learning, and AI skills with DrivenData competitions.
What a non-profit shutting down tells us about AI in the social sector
When non-profits when they shut down, we should pay attention to the assets they produce as public goods and how they can be used to drive impact.
Meet the winners of the Pose Bowl challenge
Learn about the top solutions submitted for the Pose Bowl: Spacecraft Detection and Pose Estimation Challenge.
Meet the winners of the Water Supply Forecast Rodeo Hindcast Stage
Learn about the winning models for forecasting seasonal water supply from the first stage of the Water Supply Forecast Rodeo.
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