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Nov 2015
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Data Science for Making the World a Bett...

Ben Jaffe And Katie Malone
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There's a good chance that great data science is going on close to you, and that it's going toward making your city, state, country, and planet a better place. Not all the data science questions being tackled out there are about finding the sleekest new algorithm or billion-dollar company idea--there's a whole world of social data science that just wants to ... Show More
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