In this talk I will be showing participants how to create change in the world with technology and data science. I'll use my own journey in combatting human trafficking as an example, extracting out themes from these examples. There will be technical demos throughout, showing the gallery of technical solutions I've used to try to solve this social problem. The intention is to show the audience how these solutions generalize. In doing so, the hope is, participants will be able to solve their own social issues.

I will be going through the following applications:

https://github.com/EricSchles/investigator https://github.com/EricSchles/document_search https://github.com/EricSchles/csvconf_talk/tree/master/scraping_craigslist

And covering the following topics:

• Web Scraping
  • Basic DOM structure
  • Static Web Scraping
• Text Processing
  • text classification
  • pulling phone numbers from unstructured text
  • pulling latitude / longitude from unstructured text
• Writing your own Image Search
  • Brief introduction to Neural Networks
  • Brief introduction to convolutional neural networks
  • VGG16 in practice - a convNet architecture
  • introduction to elastic search
• Introduction to Geographic processing (time permitted)

Each of these topics will be used together to describe the above systems, which I use to combat slavery.