The Scopeathon is a day-long training event where students and partners from government and nonprofit organizations will collaborate and learn how to scope a data science/AI/ML project for social impact. Unlike a typical “hackathon”, where you might hack away at an ill-defined problem, the focus here is to give participants hands-on experience with the most important part of a social impact project: understanding the problem, determining goals and tradeoffs, identifying actions that can be taken, reviewing the data available, and planning out an analysis, while taking into account relevant ethical issues. The goal is to create an actionable scope that will make the following coding and analysis have its intended impact.
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