December Edition: 2022 Highlights

We kicked off 2022 with a wonderful post from a fifth grader, Isabella, who (via her father, Rod Fuentes) wrote up a report of her science fair project on optimizing garbage routes in order to reduce litter in her city using computer vision. The final product was a heat map to be offered up to city council for implementation. I particularly loved the way Isabella combined her love for our planet and coding to improve her space, and I especially enjoy reading posts from our young authors. I always appreciate posts that touch on the more ethical aspects of data science, and Aisulu Omar did a wonderful job of shedding light on the importance of representation within data itself, the workplace, and how the two are connected. Addressing systemic biases within data science is so important and this thorough write-up was very effective in breaking down what one needs to know.