19.07.2021

tags: correlaidx calls

TOP0 Introduction

moderation: Phil present: Alexander, Andrew

If you couldn’t attend, please fill in the updates for your chapters

Top0: Welcome

TOP1: CorrelAid news:

• CorrelAid Social Get-together coming up in August (Saturday 14th)

• New local chapter challenge (any ideas from the chapters?)

• • Masterpeace project

    • MVP is nearly done

    • search bar for social innoviations

    • project idea: open source sprint in python

  • NPO: BuildUp - helping peacemakers in Lebanon for the UNDP

    • scraped social media data

    • Annotated with tensions

    • Kaggle challenge: classifying tensions

      • All open source, hope is to get some people to contribute further on the open source platform after the challenge

  • idea from Frankfurt

    • paradise papers:

      • data is clean

      • modelling challenge

      • predictive model: detect bad adresses (shell companies)

• TODO:

  • Phil contacts Frie for Project Cycle questions by LC-Konstanz

  • Phil gets Andrew in touch with people from local chapter challenge

  • TOP2: Local Chapter Update (Short)

Netherlands

New projects:

• Macheo (continuing with 4 new volunteers)

• Observation international (probably next month?)

• Donate Effectively to start end August

ongoing projects:

• SLK (geospatial analysis and story of deforestation Kosovo) Will be presenting to the Kosovo Prime minister in 1-2 weeks

• Simavi (3 analysts -> 1 analyst)

• Safetipin (started)

Looking to exit projects:

• Masterpeace (search of social innovations)

• Gmoji (predicting emotional state through self-reported emojis)

Retro:

• Focusing on:

  • Community engagement for people not on projects

  • Mixing up core-organisation and NPO engagement

  • Internal data - projects visbility and horizontal organisation

Meetups Organised:

• data for energy transition June 30th: Youtube link

Prepping:

• Large scale data for crowdsourcing. Speakers:

  • crowdfight

  • tentative: Humanitarian data exchange

Konstanz

• ongoing projects:

  • OpenData Konstanz Python Package is ready :fire: (R package might take some time)

  • Two weeks ago had the chance to present CorrelAid to the students of the university of Konstanz

    • Got 3 new members from it!

  • Ongoing transition

    • looks good

München

Rhein-Main

• bee-observer part 2

  • monthly meetings with beekeepers (some of them interested in Data Science!)

  • Panama Papers