The Power of Human Interpretable AI for Homelessness
In the fight against chronic homelessness, London, Canada, has turned to an approach that combines artificial intelligence’s predictive power with a critical need for transparency and interpretability. The HIFIS-RNN-MLP model, developed by researchers to forecast chronic homelessness, is illustrative of making convoluted artificial neural networks trustworthy and easy to explain, precisely when dealing with sensitive […]
Data Scientists for Social Good: Brandon Skinner
A great example of data science for social good can be found within a partnership between Strategies to End Homelessness and 84.51°: an analytics and data science company located in Cincinnati that demonstrates ways in which data can be used to solve homelessness issues. STEH, a Cincinnati-based CoC organization, channels efforts to support homeless people […]
Housing for Homeless Youth
A new study suggests a creative approach to allocating scarce housing resources among homeless youth so that the process is fair and efficient. A group of researchers at the University of Southern California has developed a data-driven framework using artificial intelligence to design housing allocation policies that improve current practice. The challenges of the homeless […]