{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/harnessing-the-power-of-the-crowd-to-increase","title":"Harnessing the Power of the Crowd to Increase Capacity for Data Science in the Social Sector","arxiv_id":"1606.07781","date":"2016-06-24","proceeding":null,"authors":["Peter Bull","Isaac Slavitt","Greg Lipstein"],"abstract":"We present three case studies of organizations using a data science\ncompetition to answer a pressing question. The first is in education where a\nnonprofit that creates smart school budgets wanted to automatically tag budget\nline items. The second is in public health, where a low-cost, nonprofit women's\nhealth care provider wanted to understand the effect of demographic and\nbehavioral questions on predicting which services a woman would need. The third\nand final example is in government innovation: using online restaurant reviews\nfrom Yelp, competitors built models to forecast which restaurants were most\nlikely to have hygiene violations when visited by health inspectors. Finally,\nwe reflect on the unique benefits of the open, public competition model.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.07781v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.07781v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"harnessing-the-power-of-the-crowd-to-increase","repo_url":"https://github.com/jsiloto/dengAI","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"tf","reach":{"status":"unanswered"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"tag","task_name":"TAG"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1606.07781","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}