Building tools for Social good

11:15 AM - 12:10 PM on August 15, 2015, Room 702

Eric Schles

Audience level:

intermediate

Watch:

http://youtu.be/APC5HvHZaf0

Description

Computational tools are becoming increasingly necessary in the world of social good. There is an increasing need for data science, automation, search and distributed computation. In this talk I will take listeners through a number of general purpose tools including, building a image search database with python and a few libraries, how to build geographic information systems with geodjango, and how to process and extract information from pdfs.

Abstract

Computational tools are becoming increasingly necessary in the world of social good. There is an increasing need for data science, automation, search and distributed computation. In this talk I will take listeners through a number of general purpose tools including, building a image search database with python and a few libraries, how to build geographic information systems with geodjango, and how to process and extract information from pdfs.