Case Study: The Ocean Cleanup achieves faster ocean plastic removal and greater collaboration with Dataiku

The Ocean Cleanup Data Solutions Accelerate Ocean Plastic Removal

The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit focused on removing ocean plastic, faced slow data updates, inefficient pipelines, and inconsistent data from many sources while trying to track and optimize cleanup operations. To solve this, it partnered with Dataiku and used Dataiku’s platform and social impact program, Ikig.AI, to centralize data work and improve collaboration across technical and non-technical teams.

With Dataiku, The Ocean Cleanup streamlined data pipelines, improved accuracy, and accelerated analytics and decision-making. The results included 5x faster campaign rollout, 5x more people contributing expertise, and measurable operational gains such as automated cleanup of 306,225 rows of missing country data and near-real-time KPI updates; the organization also reported removing over 450,000 kg of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and 17,000,000 kg from rivers worldwide.

The Ocean Cleanup

Bruno Sainte-Rose

Lead Computational Modeler