Civis Analytics's Dan Wagner on Data Solutions to Social Problems

Civis Analytics’s Dan Wagner joins our experts discussing the untapped potential of data analysis in medicine, education, and elsewhere, along with the pitfalls that may lie ahead.

You’ve said you want to solve the world’s biggest problems using big data. What’s top on that list?
We’re focused on two areas: education and health. On education we’re focused on using individual-level data to help clients identify low-income students who are applying and enrolling in colleges that are beneath their potential and helping those organizations identify means to get those kids to go to colleges that are actually equivalent to their potential.