Your recommenders should be the two people who know you and your work best. This can be your advisor or professor, or your work/research manager. It is not necessary that they are faculty members at your university, but we recommend getting letters from people that can comment on your academic background, practical skills in data [...]
If necessary, yes. Please do the following: 1) Send the link to the new reference. 2) Send us the name of, contact info of, and your relation to the new reference at dssg at datascienceforsocialgood dot org. 3) Send us the name and contact info of the reference you'd like to remove at dssg at [...]
We'd rather you give us a few project ideas than one detailed, specific, project proposal. We can then work with you to better understand the potential projects to select the one that best fits the fellowship.
Fellow applications close at midnight in the latest timezone on earth.
Any recommendations submitted after the deadline will be added to your application, but reviewers can only take into account information available to them at the time of review so we highly recommend you ensure your recommendations are in before the deadline.
We will communicate your application status in several emails leading up to the application deadline to inform you whether we are still missing parts of the application or recommendations. Once the application deadline has passed, we review applications using a rolling process. The review period is an extremely busy time for us, which is why [...]
Once applications close the 31st of January, we will start the rolling review process aiming for the following dates. First week of February: initial review round starts Last week of February: review round completed, all applicants moved to interview round or notified Mid February to mid March: interviews Late March: decision emails sent out (acceptances, [...]
No, not at all! We love CS geeks but in order to solve high impact problems, we need teams with a broad set of skills. We want people from all kinds of backgrounds including sociology, economics, public policy, public health, geography, physics, and chemistry. However, we do want you to have experience with programming, data [...]
Not necessarily but this is designed for current student or recent graduates. If you have finished a degree (undergrad, Masters, PhD) in the past couple of years, you should be ok to apply. We've had post-docs, as well as people in industry (recent graduates), and people in between undergrad and gradschool come as fellows in [...]