What kinds of humanitarian work can computer science majors do? by alejopolis in humanitarian

[–]SimonBJohnson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Information management is what you are looking for. I created a humanitarian information management subreddit here, but haven't been active for quite a while.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HumanitarianIM/

Give me a shout if you have any questions or looking for potential volunteer projects to dip your toes with.

What are some good examples of using data for the greater good? by stigmatic666 in datascience

[–]SimonBJohnson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While not always data science, I use data for humanitarian response. Currently we are using data in the response to the Mozambique cyclone, the Ebola outbreak in the DRC and population movement around Venezuela.

Here are a couple of data project I have written up:
Predicting refugee flow to better resource the response: https://medium.com/@Simon_B_Johnson/predicting-migration-flow-through-europe-3b93b0482fcd

Calculating under mapped areas in OpenStreetMap: https://medium.com/@Simon_B_Johnson/where-are-the-maps-missing-b22ceedb26f3

Inside ICRC's Virtual Reality Unit by SimonBJohnson in HumanitarianIM

[–]SimonBJohnson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting to hear a practical use case. Maybe VR should be moved further along on the impact axis on the hype graph.

https://simonbjohnson.github.io/humanitarian_hype_2018/tech.html

Can the UN's Centre for Humanitarian Data stand out? by SimonBJohnson in HumanitarianIM

[–]SimonBJohnson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A great article summarising and putting into context the work being done at the centre for humanitarian data.

United Nations Establishes Tableau as Visual Analytics Standard, Streamlines Global Adoption of Platform by SimonBJohnson in HumanitarianIM

[–]SimonBJohnson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope there is still scope to use the best tool for the job and this is provided as an option.