Data for the Common Good is dedicated to building communities, platforms, and ecosystems that maximize the potential of data to drive discovery and improve human health. Headquartered in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Chicago, our team of experts works with collaborators all over the world to connect and share useful, high-quality data between institutions, groups, and countries to increase opportunities for discovery.
Contributors in 2026
5
+1 from 2025
Projects since 2016
13
4.3 a cycle on average
Cycles
3 of 11
3-cycle streak
Rank in 2026
#60
of 183, 0.4% of slots
Mentors
4
for 4 projects in 2025
Accepted projects each year, against the median organization that year
| Data for the Common Good | Median organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 0 | 4 |
| 2017 | 0 | 4 |
| 2018 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 0 | 4 |
| 2020 | 0 | 4 |
| 2021 | 0 | 4 |
| 2022 | 0 | 3 |
| 2023 | 0 | 4 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4 |
| 2025 | 4 | 5 |
| 2026 | 5 | 4 |
Each one has its own page of organizations and trends
Technologies
# Topics
5 projects in 2026 · All 13 projects since 2016
devSuryansh
This project proposes a configuration-driven web application that visualizes data completeness across GraphQL datasets using an interactive heatmap....
Manjula
GEARBOx is a clinical decision-support tool that helps clinicians match patients to open clinical trials but its current interface forces users to...
O-Abdelaziz
FHIR resources are powerful but difficult to explore in practice because their data is deeply nested, inconsistent across resource types, and hard to...
Philip Narteh
D4CG's SMART on FHIR application gives patients autonomy over their Electronic Health Records, enabling them to share records with researchers. The...
YujingDong
This project enhances an existing LLM-powered chatbot for cohort discovery in the PCDC platform, enabling users to describe patient cohorts in...
aryantonyMentored by Tianyun Zhang
I will improve a SMART on FHIR patient-facing app to make it more accessible, user-friendly, and efficient. This includes simplifying menus and...
ManjulaMentored by Paul Murdoch
Healthcare data is critical for decision-making, but the FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) format, while powerful, can be challenging...
Regina HuangMentored by Jooho Lee
The process of identifying patients meeting certain criteria is crucial to advance research and contributes to new knowledge in medicine and health....
Tushar JamdadeMentored by Steve Krasinsky
This project aims to create custom Jupyter notebooks that help users efficiently unpack AVRO files, perform quality assurance (QA) and quality...
Luwei WangMentored by Data for the Common Good
Table 1 or demographic tables are used to set the baseline characteristics in medical research. They are often the first table in the papers...
Zhen JiangMentored by Tianyun Zhang
The clinical trial matching application aims to improve user-friendliness, particularly for individuals without medical expertise, by incorporating...
PaarthAMentored by Spencer Claxton
Our project, a clinical trial matching application, currently utilises a REACTJS front-end application. The GEN3 framework has introduced a new...
Wenbo_QianMentored by Nicholas Ferraz
The lack of automated testing capabilities in the cloud infrastructure of a data-intensive system significantly increases the time and effort...
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