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Name: BU Spark!

Type: Organization

Bio: BU Spark! is an initiative to support student-driven innovation and entrepreneurship in computer science, computer engineering and related disciplines.

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Blog: www.bu.edu/spark

bu-spark.github.io

The start of Spark! Tech Resources

BU Spark!'s Projects

ap-evictions-tracker

Investigating and tracking the allocation of Federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program money to states and their distribution to individuals.

attendance-tracker

An app to track student attendance in classes

bhav

Bhav. The SPARK! Resiliency Challenge Portal

boston-reprecincting-voter-study

Ahead of the City of Boston's reprecincting efforts based off the 2020 Census, we are studying the demographics of the Ward precincts and whether they are being fairly represented.

carr-x-spark-covid-racial-data-tracker

The BU Center for Antiracist Research in collaboration with BU Spark! has set out to build a data pipeline to collect COVID racial data across the US and study their discrepancies.

ceres-dys-youth-recidivism-nlp-study

Examining Department of Youth caseworker notes along with demographic data of youths admitted in the MA juvenile justice system to study their enrollment in the rehabilitative YES program.

CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data. It powers catalog.data.gov, open.canada.ca/data, data.humdata.org among many other sites.