Scaling Purpose through Open Source

GoodCon Europe underscored the importance of open sourcing solutions to social challenges, a key tenet shared by Data Clinic

At last week’s GoodCon Europe, hosts Afdhel Aziz and Bobby Jones kicked off the gathering with words of wisdom from their years of experience helping companies find and incorporate purpose into all they do.

One principle that resonates extraordinarily with our mission at Data Clinic: Purpose should be an open source pursuit. As Bobby explained, when companies make breakthroughs in helping the greater good, they should be open sourced so others can also benefit and make use of these solutions.

Here at Data Clinic, we started small, partnering 1-on-1 with mission-driven organizations as a completely volunteer-led initiative. Since then, we’ve built from the ground up, growing a full-time dedicated team within Two Sigma that connects our unique competencies with purpose-driven partners. Over this time, we’ve encountered recurring challenges in our partnerships. If we were facing these issues over and over, we knew others were, too.

That’s why we are committed to building open source tools and resources to scale the solutions we uncover through our projects. Be it a mapping that helps you merge fascinating open datasets, a tool that helps you clean messy text data, a methodology for analyzing geospatial data — we believe that sharing these insights will help us all spend less time reinventing the wheel, and more time discovering innovative solutions to social challenges.

Explore our expanding library of open source contributions on our Medium blog and on GitHub.