AI Use Note: Main body text entirely human written. Claude (Opus 4.8) helped develop models of animal life histories in the appendix.
Cross-posted from Good Structures.
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* Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...
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Back in November 2023 I posted here to launch Spiro and raise our first $198k. Two and a half years later this is an update and a fundraiser for the next step.
The short version: we've now reached over-5,900 people with TB preventive medicine, including over 3,000 children under five years old. Our early results have held up well an...
Adapted from my Substack, Funding Anthropalypse.
Short version: if you want a share of the coming Anthropic and OpenAI windfall - the $37bn+ that could be in play next year - the way in is to become 'legibly excellent', so the evaluators and donors that frontier lab staff already trust point them to yo...
https://data.mercyforanimals.org/
Does anyone know of any more examples of EA orgs doing analysis outside of Excel Spreadsheets/Google Sheets - using e.g. Guesstimate, Jupyter Notebook etc?
Faunalytics is an animal advocacy charity and one of ACE’s top charities. They summarize and interpret a lot of academic research, as well as conducting their own research including full data analyses. I volunteered with them a few years ago and would definitely recommend it to anyone looking to learn research, writing, or data analysis skills. They’re also really good about doing transparent and reproducible research by releasing the code they use.
Here’s a recent article conducting a data analysis of 15 years of data on wildlife trade: https://faunalytics.org/wildlife-imports/
Here’s the main data analysis I worked on, analyzing Faunalytics’ proprietary polling data on animal welfare attitudes. We released the data, a writeup of the methodology, and all the code for the analysis on OSF: https://osf.io/2b86k/
GiveDirectly has been using machine learning to identify people in extreme poverty.
I do not know of other examples but I would be interested in knowing the data use/needs of EA organizations