Data for social change

"2017 co-founded (with Lucas Mason-Brown a mathematician) & CEO of D4BL (Data for Black Lives)-a company that connects data scientists with community activists/changemakers in an attempt to create social change by using data; 2013 researched high infant mortality rate among black infants at Miami's Jackson Hospital used data to determine it was linked to the aggressive pushing of formula instead of breast feeding data was compelling & forced hospital to announce changes in policy; working on compiling a nationwide database of technologies used by police departments; worked on ""Telling It Like It Is: Miami Youth Speak Out On The School to Prison Pipeline""comic book in response to police violence at her high school;"

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Category:
Data mining

Completion Status:
yes

Patent Number:
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Co-Inventor:
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