Data and Software

Data-Driven Envirolab has developed the largest global database of city and regional government participation in climate action. Citation: Hsu, A., Yeo, Z.Y., Rauber, R. et al. ClimActor, harmonized transnational data on climate network participation by city and regional governments. Sci Data 7, 374 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00682-0

• Datasets (CSV) via or our figshare or GitHub page
• ClimActor R package – data loads as an RData object when the package is loaded (devtools::install_github("datadrivenenvirolab/climactor", build_vignettes = TRUE)
• Video tutorial on package use

Replication data for: Thomas, R., A. Hsu, and A. Weinfurter. Sustainable and inclusive – Evaluating urban sustainability indicators’ suitability for measuring progress towards SDG-11. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science (2020). https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808320975404. Citation: 

• Access on Harvard Dataverse.

This platform displays census-tract level surface urban heat island (SUHI) intensities for US urbanized areas as well as socioeconomic information at the same level of aggregation. Citation: Chakraborty, T., Hsu, A., Manya, D., & Sheriff, G. (2020). A spatially explicit surface urban heat island database for the United States: Characterization, uncertainties, and possible applications., ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Hsu, A., Tan, J., Ng, Y.M., Vanda, R. and N. Goyal. (2020). Replication data for: Performance determinants show European cities are delivering on climate mitigation. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IJ4DDI, Harvard Dataverse, V1.

Hsu, A., N. Alexandre, J. Brandt, T. Chakraborty, S. Comess, A. Feierman, T. Huang, S. Janaskie, D. Manya, M. Moroney, N. Moyo, R. Rauber, G. Sherriff, R. Thomas, J. Tong, Y. Xie, A. Weinfurter, Z. Yeo (in alpha order), et al. (2018). The Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index. New Haven, CT: Yale University. Available: datadrivenlab.org/urban.

All data are available for download here: http://datadrivenlab.org/urban/about/downloads/.

The 2016 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 180 countries on air quality, water and sanitation, fisheries, forestry, biodiversity and habitat, and climate change and energy. For more information see: www.epi2016.yale.edu.

In partnership with the Connecticut Green Bank, Data-Driven Yale developed scorecards ranking residential solar PV in each of the state’s 69 towns. See the website and final report here: http://www.ctsolarscoreboard.com/.