DataWorks
DataWorks is a unique workplace training program and data services provider. It provides businesses, non-profits, and civic organizations with data cleaning, analysis, and annotation services and trains young people from communities historically minoritized in computing. DataWorks operates with seven employees: five Data Fellows, one Data Trainer, and a Project Manager. The team works full-time as Georgia Tech employees but operate as a small company inside the institution, providing data services to external clients and internal projects.
Primary Goals:
- To provide data services to non-profits / civic organizations, researchers, and corporate clients.
- To provide computing education in a work environment that meets the needs of adults with limited technical backgrounds but with great potential to help broaden the demographic of people working in computing.
- To conduct research to understand better how to create new pathways into computing to attract more diverse workers to data sciences.
- To research and develop approaches to community engagement and redistribute the wealth of the university beyond itself and its standard beneficiaries.
- To create a model for co-constructing a work environment where the labor of data work is respected, and the workers have agency in their jobs, resisting exploitive work practices.