During the week of September 21, 2019, the Data-Driven Lab team will travel to New York to participate in the 2019 UN Climate Change Summit, a call for concrete climate action launched by UN Secretary-General António Guterres. The Summit represents one of the last...
In May 2019, I visited Myanmar and Cambodia to conduct fieldwork as part of Director Angel Hsu’s research on “Urbanization in Southeast Asia.” Since the start of the year, researchers at Data-Driven Lab have been using satellite images and open social media data to...
Earlier this summer, I packed my bags and headed off to three cities in Laos – Luang Prabang, Vang Vieng, and Vientiane – and to Bangkok, Thailand. The main goal of this fieldwork was to collect data on land-use across cities in Southeast Asia. This work will support...
“I think data is power — but, more importantly, data is latent power. To actually unlock it is a tricky exercise.” These comments, from UN Habitat’s Robert Kehew, helped kick off the launch of the Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index (UESI) on December 6...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Across cities worldwide, poorer neighborhoods take on a disproportionate share of environmental burdens, according to a first-of-its-kind research tool. The Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index (UESI) finds that even in cities with...
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