Stellarsight enables you to create a workforce strategy and confidently source skilled workers based on the latest national labor market data.
Prioritizing skills opens access to more than half of U.S. workers who are Skilled Through Alternative Routes. STARs are a diverse talent pool with the skills for in-demand jobs which they gained from on-the-job experience, military service and in community college, among other routes.
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Financial inclusion in Mozambique is at a fairly nascent stage. Nearly 60% of the adult population in Mozambique does not have access to any sort of financial services (Source: Finscope 2014). A small team at Stanford was commissioned to undertake a practicum project to make policy recommendations to build an inclusive financial sector in Mozambique. We additionally attempted to identify districts that has a higher potential for financial services.
The project used Satellite Night Light Data as a robust proxy for income, availability of electricity, Human Development and access to information and communication technology. In addition to Night Light data, the project used data such as population density and access to financial infrastructure.
Based on the analysis, the project identified a strategy for policy makers and financial institutions to prioritize the northern regions for financial inclusion in short to medium term. These are also the regions that currently have very low access to formal financial services.
Stanford MIP Practicum, 2016
Chris Walker, Lucie Zikova, María García Lecuona , Shiv Vadivelalagan
Boost uses A.I. to power scouting and recruiting in grassroots basketball. Our algorithms focus on player skills and ability, not just game stats and analytics. Player data is visualized and contextualized both for parents/players, and for coaches to make recruiting decisions. We save coaches time, money, and energy. We help athletes break through the politics of a multi-billion dollar business.
Analytics and Algorithms @ Boost,
A nine-week project in Stanford d.school’s Large Scale Transformation class. We consulted for CreditDo and focused on creating an innovative, systems-level intervention for breaking predatory credit cycles in middle and high school students. Based on our user and stakeholder insights, we developed a simulation platform modeled after “The Sims”, where students work in teams to guide their character through different challenges, making decisions that have financial impact on their character’s life, helping to improve students' financial literacy. w
Collaborating with the Future: Launching Large Scale Sustainable Transformations, Stanford dschool
Chris Walker, Issac Nwokocha, Kanhika Nikam, Shailesh Tainwala
The 1789 national assembly that gathered to frame a declaration of rights represented a broad swath of early modern French society. From soldiers to lawyers, from the established clergy to an increasingly vocal third estate, the debates represented a social reconfiguration in process as well as an intellectual exercise. How did the social position of individuals determine the form of their speech contributions? What broad patterns can we identify among known social groups, and what new factors seem to indicate previously undetected groups? Finally, what conclusions can we draw regarding the nature of a speech event as a contribution to the final declaration?
Stanford Humanities + Design, 2015
Chris Walker, Rachel Midura
Case study on using private equity to improve power distribution in Uganda, for the Leadership Academy for Development.
The Leadership Academy for Development (LAD) trains government officials and business leaders from developing countries to help the private sector be a constructive force for economic growth and development. It teaches carefully selected participants how to be effective reform leaders, promoting sound public policies in complex and contentious settings. LAD is a project of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, part of Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and is conducted in partnership with the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Leadership Academy for Development Case Study, 2015
Chris Walker