by Ella Feathers | Jun 30, 2023 | Big data, Data, Featured, Machine Learning
By Ella Feathers, Angel Hsu, and Zhi Yi Yeo Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications are dominating headlines and public discourse for the threats and opportunities they pose to society. These technologies can be misused, with applications...
by Jolene Mei | Jul 13, 2021 | Big data
Download Cozie Campaign Sign-up What is the Urban Heat Island? Cities are hot — much hotter than their surroundings due to a phenomenon known as the Urban Heat Island effect. Roads, buildings, and sidewalks tend to be much hotter than forests, grasslands, and other...
by Hannah Melville-Rea | Jun 8, 2021 | Big data, Climate, Featured, Policy, Urban Index
Disasters tug at our societal fabric, creating cracks along pre-existing fissures. From aged-care graveyards to policy brutality, the past year exposed inequalities that had been permeating for decades. Ahead, the climate crisis promises to thrust its burden on the...
by Willie Khoo | Nov 8, 2020 | Big data
Introductory Video Data-Driven Envirolab has been tracking and aggregating climate commitments by local governments and businesses for the past few years. We do this because these are pivotal actors in accelerating climate action to the scales necessary to avoid...
by Willie Khoo | Dec 10, 2019 | Big data, Data, Data Visualization, UNFCCC
November saw the launch of the inaugural Open Climate Collabathon, a decentralized and open-source eco-hackathon organized by Yale OpenLab and hosted by partner institutions, or nodes, all around the world. Featuring 8 nodes, 21 prompts, and 350 participants, the...
by Data-Driven Lab | Nov 15, 2019 | Big data, Data, Data Visualization
In celebration of World GIS Day 2019, Yale University launched the GIS Day Conference from November 13 to 15, bringing together data science experts and students to explore GIS applications in a range of fields. TC Chakraborty, PhD Candidate at the Yale School of...
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