Brian Jeffery Beggerly on Flickr.com Urban areas are hot, and are getting hotter. The higher temperature in urban areas – the urban heat island (UHI) effect – is an emergent property of urbanization and a major research area in urban climatology. Most UHI...
“Do or do not, there is no try,” once said great Jedi master Yoda, whose likeness peered out from a tranquil pond below DBS Bank’s Asia X office, located in LucasFilms’ aptly-named Sandcrawler building. Students participating in Yale-NUS’s Data 2.0 Hackathon kept...
“Data is big. But data democratization is bigger.” This was a point emphasized by a researcher during her presentation on participatory data collection approaches at the 9th World Urban Forum (WUF9). While urban data has allowed researchers, policymakers and...
Photo: Dr. Angel Hsu and Data-Driven Yale’s winning team, John Brandt, Matthew Moroney, and Sophie Janaskie, accept their award from Robert Kirkpatrick, Director at United Nations Global Pulse, and Dave Tang, Senior Vice President at Western Digital. Photo courtesy of...
Despite the urgency of climate change, keeping track of global adaptation efforts has proven tricky. Adaptation means different things in different places: in Rotterdam, the creation of parks that can absorb larger, more frequent floods; in Los Angeles, retrofitting...
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