Delaware Data Innovation Lab
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
The Delaware Data Innovation Lab (DDIL) was a Wilmington, Delaware-based nonprofit data lab launched in December 2020 by data science company CompassRed with a $2 million New Castle County CARES Act grant. It paired community organizations - nonprofits, hospitals and universities - with data scientists and engineers to solve COVID-19-adjacent problems: housing insecurity, economic stability and educational equity. Early projects included an eviction tracker, a FAFSA completion dashboard and a wastewater dashboard.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Launched
CompassRed launched the Delaware Data Innovation Lab with $2 million in CARES Act funding, convening local data companies and fellows to tackle COVID-19 challenges with analytics.
- Independent nonprofit
Within its first year, DDIL became a permanent, independent nonprofit separate from CompassRed, run by associate directors Ryan Harrington and Hector Maldonado-Reis.
- Merged into Tech Impact
DDIL merged with Tech Impact, a Philadelphia-based technology nonprofit, becoming a division of Tech Impact so the team could focus on data and innovation rather than overhead.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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