Data Science for Common Good
Empowering communities through data
Our Mission
Our mission is to unleash the transformative potential of data science to empower people and communities for a brighter future serving the common good. By putting people at the heart of data science, we aim to combine humans' collective experience and perspectives with data and AI to foster social innovation, co-creation and collective action.
Contact information
Research Group Leads
Professor Sebastien Chastin
Email: Sebastien.Chastin@gcu.ac.uk
Dr Zoë Tieges
Email: zoe.tieges@gcu.ac.uk
More ways to get in touch
Group email: DS4CG@gcu.ac.uk
Data lab community page: https://community.thedatalab.com/topics/38765/feed
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Latest news
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