by Geoffrey Martin | Mar 13, 2018 | China, Data, Data Visualization
In 2012, Harvard Business Review crowned “Data Scientist” the sexiest job of the 21st century. Since that year, the field of data science – which combines statistics and computer science, to interpret data and inform decision-making – has leaped from milestone to...
by Sabrina Long | Oct 24, 2017 | Data Visualization
Andrew is a Quantitative Analyst for Data-Driven Yale. Before joining the group, he worked for the Institute for Market Transformation in Washington, DC, where he modeled city-level environmental policies and worked with real estate companies to reduce energy...
by Amy Weinfurter | Sep 19, 2017 | Climate, Data Visualization
This post and map were produced by Data-Driven Yale members Angel Hsu, Zev Nicolai-Scanio, Ross Rauber, Yihao Xie, Amy Weinfurter, Tina Huang, Geoffrey Martin, Ryan Thomas, Sophie Janaskie, Franz Hochstrasser, Sabrina Long, and Algol (Ziang) Li. On June 1 2017,...
by Amy Weinfurter | Mar 24, 2017 | Climate, Data, Data Visualization
“R is like piano – you have to practice the scales before you jump into playing Jimi Hendrix.” These words of advice, from Data-Driven Research Assistant and Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies masters student Matt Moroney, felt particularly right for...
by Carlin Rosengarten | Jun 6, 2016 | Air quality, Data, Data Visualization, Featured
This post originally appeared in Scientific American. Image: Smog shrouds Beijing’s Forbidden City Credit: By Brian Jeffery Beggerly via Wikimedia Commonsunder Creative Commons license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 By Angel Hsu, David Wong,...
by Amy Weinfurter | Jun 1, 2016 | Data Visualization, UNFCCC, Urbanization
Above: Ryan in Tanzania, interviewing a village leader (left) about residents using solar-powered lighting in their homes. Ryan is an urban planning researcher with interests in sustainability and monitoring and evaluation. His education, work experience, and research...
