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DS4CG 2026 Recruitment Announcement

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DS4cg 2026 Partner recruitment Are you a nonprofit, public-sector organization, or mission-driven academic looking to turn your data challenges into real-world impact? The Data Science for the Common Good (DS4CG) program at UMass Amherst connects you with talented data science students and expert faculty who apply cutting-edge analytics, machine learning, and visualization techniques to advance your goals. Each summer, DS4CG teams work on meaningful projects in areas such as education, health, environmental sustainability, and social equity. Our student teams collaborate closely with partners to co-design solutions, build data-driven tools, and deliver actionable insights that make a difference. There is no fee to participate. DS4CG is generously funded by the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, our industry affiliate partners, our donors, and is sponsored by Adobe Research. We welcome organizations at any stage of development to reach out…

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Improving Media Analysis and Research by Developing a Model Training Pipeline

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Media Cloud is an open-source platform for media analysis and research. Users can query the online news archive to investigate media attention and language. To expand the available toolchain, this team will build a model training pipeline that guides users in specifying an initial query, downloading and labeling sample content, and iteratively training a classifier model. 

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Analyzing Drone-Captured Images of African Elephants

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Save the Elephants is an organization that works to secure a future for elephants. This team is working with Save the Elephants to analyze drone-captured images of African elephants who are currently being negatively impacted by doubt and climate change. The team will use these images to develop models that help track elephants, monitor their health information, and prevent human-elephant conflict. 

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Identifying Patterns in Unity’s GPU Usage

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The Unity Research Computing Platform accelerates research from laptop-size to 1,000’s of cores and 100’s of graphics processing units (GPUs), and it has about 1400 GPUs that are often underutilized by user jobs. This team will develop an automated workflow to identify patterns in GPU utilization, summarize common issues, and categorize user profiles, for the purpose of providing timely intervention and effective user outreach.   

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