We're delighted to welcome Jake Porway, Founder and Executive Director of DataKind,to the NYC Data Science Meetup! Jake will be talking about DataKind's excellent work applying data science for social good.

As you may know, DataKind is an organization headquartered in New York that brings high-impact organizations dedicated to solving the worlds biggest challenges together with leading data scientists to improve the quality of, access to and understanding of data in the social sector.

About Jake Porway: Jake is a machine learning and technology enthusiast who loves nothing more than seeing good values in data. He founded DataKind in the hopes of creating a world in which every social organization has access to data capacity to better serve humanity. He was most recently the data scientist in the New York Times R&D lab and remains an active member of the data science community. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Statistics from UCLA.

Follow Jake and DataKind on Twitter: @jakeporway, @datakind

We hope to see you there. Many thanks to Meetup HQ for hosting!