Co-founder DrivenData. Celebrating a decade of data for good.
ML challenges | https://www.drivendata.org/
Data projects | https://drivendata.co/
Open source | https://github.com/pjbull
Launching today: The K-12 AI Infrastructure Platform! https://platform.k12-ai-infrastructure.org/ Making AI better for students and educators.
Learn more about the launch and our plans on the blog post here:
https://drivendata.co/blog/k12-ai-infrastructure-platform-launch
I’m excited to be speaking at Good Tech Summit in DC April 7 with Digital Promise about building AI infrastructure for social impact. https://www.goodtechtogether.org/summit
We’ll share a new program focused on K-12 education and talk about how to invest in the foundations of AI systems: data, models, and benchmarks. We'll explore how these can shape AI development in a field. Please join us!
🎉 Excited to launch this challenge! 🎉 Over a year of data collection, curation, and annotation that we undertook to produce a first-of-its-kind dataset.
Help us build speech models that understand kids 2-5. This gap bottlenecks literacy assessments, language acquisition testing, speech pathology screenings, and any kind of tool that interacts with early learners' speech (which is a lot, since they are not writing yet!). $120k in prizes and huge impact!
🚀 New release: cloudpathlib v0.23.0
🥧 Now with Python 3.14 (π) support!
📁 New copy & move methods mean you can reduce usage of shutil 🎉
Check out the full release and docs here:
👉 https://cloudpathlib.drivendata.org/stable/
Super interesting work on new proposed columnar data file format called F3 with embedded wasm binary to decode the data 🤯 (which obviates the need for 3rd party library support). Favorable comparisons on compression, throughput and random reads to existing formats.
Interesting to see empirical research coming out for LLMs as education aids. In this study, active use of LLMs helped CS students debug compiler errors. Removing LLM access demonstrated no lasting learning benefit from having had access to it...
https://learninganalytics.upenn.edu/ryanbaker/ICCE2025_paper_28.pdf
We just shipped two major features for cloudpathlib ✨📦 ✨ ! First, http support—treat an URL like any other path in Python code (open, read_text, join). Second, compatibility with open and os Python built-ins for seamless transition of legacy code and third-party library support.
