Introducing our 2019 Data Fellowship
Delta Analytics is an SF Bay Area based 501(c)3 nonprofit which seeks to use Data for Good through our nonprofit data service grant and education programs. You can learn more about our programs here. If you are interested in supporting our programs we accept financial contributions here. Please direct all other inquiries to inquiry@deltanalytics.org.
Delta Analytics welcomed our 2019 class of Data Fellows in January. Our teams this year are tackling machine learning and analytics challenges across 10 nonprofit partners. Read on to learn more!
CareerVillage
We are excited to be working with CareerVillage (CV) for a second year! (CV) is a San Francisco based nonprofit whose mission is to democratize access to career advice and guidance for underserved youth by building a platform that connects experienced professionals with students interested in pursuing that career. CV also provides additional services through their partners in especially underserved communities. The Delta team has been tasked with improving CV’s ability to match student questions with the right professionals.
LitLab
LitLab is a nonprofit that offers direct service programs to serve their mission of building a strong foundation for young learners. They offer literacy resources for use by educators and parents in the form of Kidappolis which serves as a learning platform for children. The Delta Analytics team’s goal is to enable data driven decision making through the development of a dashboard visualizing key usage metrics.
Tarjimly
Tarjimly builds and operates a platform that matches volunteer translators with refugees and aid workers that require translation. The platform has successfully connected over 9,000 volunteer translators to over 17,000 aid workers and refugees to provide on demand services. The Delta team is working with Tarjimly to improve their matching algorithms and provide more reliable service through the app.
Open Media Foundation
We are excited to welcome back Open Media Foundation (OMF) for a second year and second project with us! The Open Media Foundation provides trainings and tools to enable greater civic engagement. As part of their efforts to improve local government transparency, OMF has collected and transcribed local government meetings which are available via their API. The Delta team last year built an autotagging system to make these meeting transcripts more searchable. This year, the team has been tasked with building interactive visualizations which will make identifying topics and meetings of interest even easier.
Dost Education
Dost Education’s mission is to empower parents in impoverished areas of India with ways to enrich their children’s early learning opportunities. Dost accomplishes this by delivering audio content to their mobile phones. The audio content contains suggested exercises to integrate into day to day activities for children to assist in their development. The Delta team is building dashboards and metrics to provide Dost with additional insight into their use behavior.
Wordnik
Wordnik is the world’s largest English language online dictionary! The Delta team is working on improving the ability for Wordnik to recommend related words outside of definition based similarity or semantics (e.g. synonyms, antonyms). The improved recommendation system will also suggest words based on other users’ search trends.
Child Trends
Child Trends is the leading nonprofit research organization focused on improving the lives and prospects of children, youth, and their families. Child Trends maintains a databank that tracks various indicators of child and family well-being including Educational Attainment and Foster Care. Their project with Delta Analytics involves analyzing data collected by the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative on interventions for foster care youth. The Delta team will be delivering dashboards that will be used by program administrators to help assess the impact of the interventions.
Glide
Glide is a San Francisco based nonprofit that works to address the needs of San Francisco’s homeless and marginalized communities. Glide’s team administers a number of programs including daily free meals, a legal clinic, and health services to those it serves. The Delta team will be working with Glide to develop metrics to better track the impact that their programs have on breaking the cycle of homelessness.
IFF
IFF is a Chicago based nonprofit which provides real estate development services such as financing for other nonprofits. Their clients include charter schools, affordable housing developers, and women’s shelters. The Delta team is working with IFF to model IFF’s lending portfolio with the goal of predicting which loans are likely to close. This will allow IFF to better allocate their capital and lending practices.
Learning Equality
Learning Equality is dedicated to bringing educational resources to those around the world. Learning Equality accomplishes this by deploying Kolibri, an offline application that allows educators to use and distribute curriculums and content from sources such as Khan Academy. The Delta team is building dashboards and user interface to enable Learning Equality and its Kolibri administrators to extract insights from how students progress through curriculums.
Thanks to Our Volunteers and Supporters
As always, our programs would not be possible without all the volunteers who work on the projects and organize our programs. It is a testament to the spirit of volunteerism that our Fellows and organizers choose to dedicate their energy outside of their full time obligations towards a mission of Data for Good. We would also like to thank our partners at the University of San Francisco Data Institute who have generously contributed space and resources to make our programs possible. We are excited to see what our teams are able to accomplish this year!
