by Ella Feathers | Mar 26, 2024 | AI, Big Data, Data, Featured
DDL received a seed grant from UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Data Science and Society (SDSS) for ChatNetZero, the world’s first AI-powered, fine-tuned large-language model dedicated to demystify climate and net-zero commitments, while combating greenwashing and the...
by Ella Feathers | Jun 30, 2023 | AI, Big Data, Data, Featured
By Ella Feathers, with the input and technical expertise of 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...
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 Environment and Social Inclusion 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...