by Angel Hsu | Oct 4, 2010 | Climate, Policy, UNFCCC
This post also appeared on Chinadialogue.net. I’m blogging live from the Tianjin intersessional meetings of the United Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the last stop on the way to the big Conference of Parties (COP-16) meeting in Cancun, Mexico this...
by Angel Hsu | Sep 28, 2010 | China, Remote Sensing
Canadian scientists Aaron van Donkelaar and Randall Martin at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, have created a map of global PM 2.5 (air particulates with diameters 2.5 microns or less, which is less than 1/3 the width of a strand of human...
by Angel Hsu | Sep 15, 2010 | Sights
I’ve landed back in Beijing for a year of dissertation research. I’m acting as a Senior Scholar based in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University. This is easily the most beautiful building on Tsinghua’s campus – a collaboration...
by Angel Hsu | Jul 20, 2010 | China, Data
Check out Chinfographics, a great data visualization site that has a lot of useful graphics of data, statistics, and other phenomena regarding China. Each graphic is accompanied by a brief blog post explaining the data used to the develop the graphic, along with a...
by Angel Hsu | May 21, 2010 | Data
I recently discovered Gapminder.org, a non-profit data visualization venture whose mantra is “Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.” While started as an independent initiative in Stockholm back in 2005, it caught the eye of...
