Founded in 2022 and reimaged as a multi-member cooperative in 2025, Friends Data Science is a queer, woman-owned small business designing data science and artificial intelligence software solutions to advance human health.
Government agencies and health systems have large amounts of data but do not have the tools to process and learn from it. We do!
Current projects include:
- Solving the Nursing Scheduling Problem through an intuitive staff scheduling app for floor nurses and nurse managers that combines unstructured machine learning insights into predicted patient census and care needs with a data-driven self-scheduling interface, to minimize under- and over-staffing, reduce labor costs, and improve nurse retention by helping floor nurses get the shifts they want
- An artificial intelligence-assisted medical scribing and note-writing tool for outpatient appointments.