by Ryan Thomas | May 4, 2017 | Data, Featured, Projects, The City Fix, Urbanization
In the past year, the water crisis in Flint, Michigan and the air quality emergency in Delhi, India have brought the inability of some cities to provide a healthy environment for their residents into sharper focus. However, as these crises unfolded, wealthy residents...
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 Diego Manya Gutierrez | Jan 11, 2017 | Big Data, Data, Urbanization
The United Nations Programme for Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT) developed the City Prosperity Initiative (the “Initiative”) as a framework to evaluate urban sustainable development through a new metric, the City Prosperity Index (CPI). At the UN-Habitat III conference...
by Ryan Thomas | Oct 25, 2016 | Big Data, Data, Presentations, UNFCCC, Urbanization
Last week, a group of over 45,000 attendees and representatives from 143 countries and 500 cities[1] participated in the adoption of the New Urban Agenda (the Agenda) at the UN-Habitat III conference in Quito. The Agenda includes a vision of sustainable urbanism,...
by Carlin Rosengarten | Jun 20, 2016 | Big Data, Data, Energy, UNFCCC
Above: Kai and F&ES classmate Andrew Moffat at the Renewable Energy Industries Forum 2015 in Washington, D.C. Hailing from Harbin (哈尔滨市), the capital of China’s Heilongjiang (黑龙江) province – known as the “Ice City” for its extremely cold winters – Xu Kaiyang (Kai)...
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,...
