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SAN FRANCISCO — Armed with laptops and access to huge volumes of data, teams of data scientists were given 24 hours to create a social good-themed app this weekend at a hackathon launched by a local nonprofit.
The hackathon was hosted by Bayes Impact, a Y Combinator-backed organization that aims to connect Silicon Valley data scientists with the nonprofit world and channel their talents towards social causes. The event brought together more than 100 data scientists, engineers and designers at the OpenDNS headquarters in San Francisco.
The winning hack was a web app that detects prostitution rings by monitoring where adult ads are posted. The team used data from Thorn, a nonprofit that aims to fight child sex trafficking with technology Read more...
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