Measured Insights
The latest blog posts from our research projects.
Investing In Mitigation – How Financial Institutions are Addressing Climate Change
Money - it’s what (they say) makes the world go round. And mitigating climate change is going to take a lot of it. To reduce emissions, we need to finance solutions such as solar, wind, carbon capture & storage, energy efficient technology, and land-use...
Get to Know Our Summer 2020 RAs
Meet the newest members of our group! Data-Driven EnviroLab (DDL) is thrilled to welcome six talented research assistants (RAs) who will be working closely with our full-time team on a range of projects this summer, including the updated Urban Environment & Social...
Claire Krummenacher and Yeo Zhi Yi Receive Best Capstone Prizes
DDL would like to extend the heartiest of congratulations to Yale-NUS’s recently graduated class of 2020. We know and have worked with many of you and are immensely proud of what you have accomplished as well as the way you have demonstrated resolve and grace in this...
Visualizing a Pandemic with Geospatial Data: Yale’s COVID-19 Mapping Project
Data scientists are stepping up in the fight against coronavirus. They are offering powerful digital tools that can provide both the public and policymakers with better information, potentially tipping the scales against the invisible enemy. Of these tools, Geographic...
PreciDatos: A Blockchain-based System for Incentivizing Actors to Disclose Accurate Climate Data
The following whitepaper was written by Dr. Angel Hsu, Willie Khoo, and Amy Weinfurter of Data-Driven Lab as well as Brendan Graetz, Barnabé Monnot, Ying Tong Lai, Qing Ze Hum, and Koh Wei Jie, a group of developers who came together at the Open Climate Collabathon. ...
New Environmental Data Science Course at Yale-NUS College
Data is everything, and everything is data. Understanding how to use and analyze it is the most critical skill of the 21st century, particularly for the environment, which comprises a multitude of complex systems and phenomena. To drive scientific inquiry and reach...
Carbon Conundrum: A New CNA Documentary
Amidst the bombardment of coronavirus stories, Channel NewsAsia (CNA) has released a new, 48-minute documentary about climate change. Featuring Data-Driven Lab Director Angel Hsu in a lab coat, Carbon Conundrum explores the science of global warming, its impacts on...
Beyond national climate action: The impact of region, city, and business commitments on global greenhouse gas emissions
Regions, cities, and businesses operating within ten of the world’s major emitting economies could reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 3.5-5.5 percent in 2030, compared with the emissions expected from current national policies, according to a new article in...
Coronavirus Teach-In: Perspectives from Policy and Science
Nations on lockdown, industries brought to their knees, and tens of thousands of lives lost—the coronavirus is truly the black swan event of 2020. Where do we go from here? Are we almost out of the woods, or are we just stepping into phase one of an Octavia Butler...
My 5 cents for Online + Flipped Teaching
With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing students and professors out of the classroom and onto online formats, it's a prime moment to reflect on my experience creating an online course for students who joined class meetings from distant campuses on separate continents. As...
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