In episode #8, we talk with Chris Jensen who works at Raisely.com (a fundraising/CRM platform for charities) and is also one of the people behind the Do No Harm software license https://github.com/raisely/NoHarmWe discuss some of the common c

Episode 9: Joey Corea

Sep 9th, 2020 29m 33s

In episode 9, we talk to Joey Corea, a data scientist at Dataro (they help charities better connect with their donors using machine learning). Joey recently changed his career from being a QA engineer to a data scientist.When he's not wrangli

Episode 7 Will Childs from Hello Sunday Morning

Oct 30th, 2018 40m 27s

Will Childs is a data scientist at Hello Sunday Morning, an Australian startup that aims to improve people's relationship with alcohol. They have a mobile app for problem drinkers that provides health coaching and peer support. Will talks about

Episode #5 with Dan Lewis-Toakley from Avaaz

Aug 17th, 2018 1h 6m

Interview with Dan Lewis-Toakley, a web developer at Avaaz.org, the world's largest progressive campaigning organisation. We discuss Avaaz's theory of change, recent campaign victories, how they deal with campaigns spanning >10 languages and th

Episode 6: Interview with Rachel Bunder from Solar Analytics

Aug 5th, 2018 48m 25s

Interview with Rachel Bunder, a data scientist at Solar Analytics. We discuss the importance of solar metering (e.g. 10% of unmonitored solar systems underperform by 50%), the potential for machine learning to match energy consumption with sola

Episode 4: Interview with Bill Finn from Angaza

May 1st, 2018 41m 30s

NB - audio a little choppy due to connectivity issues in Nairobi.Episode 4 with Bill Finn from Angaza, a pay as you go financing company that helps people in Kenya and 29 other countries around the world to pay for solar lighting and other eq

Episode 3 - Schalk and JD from OpenUp.org.za

Apr 5th, 2018 1h

Episode #3 with Schalk and JD from https://www.OpenUp.org.za, a civic-tech consultancy in South Africa. We talk about https://vulekamali.gov.za an open data portal for government budgets that allows South Africans to see exactly where the taxes

Episode 2 - Michael Manley from Public Good Software

Mar 16th, 2018 48m 26s

Episode number two with Michael Manley from Public Good Software. We discuss Public Good's approach to making news actionable using machine learning to identify articles which are connected to the focus areas of charities. Public Good has been

Episode 1 - G Klausner from Arcadia Power

Mar 2nd, 2018 47m 49s

Our maiden podcast with G Klausner from Arcadia Power (https://www.arcadiapower.com/). Suggested resources:- 99 bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz: https://www.sandimetz.com/99bottles- Security Engineering by Ross Anderson: http://www.cl.cam.ac.u

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