by Data-Driven Lab | Apr 19, 2020 | Climate, Data
The following whitepaper was written by Dr. Angel Hsu, Willie Khoo, Amy Weinfurter, Brendan Graetz, Barnabé Monnot, Ying Tong Lai, Qing Ze Hum, and Koh Wei Jie, a group of climate experts and computer scientists who came together at the Open Climate Collabathon. The...
by Data-Driven Lab | Apr 11, 2020 | Data, Data Visualization
Data is everything, and everything is data. Understanding how to use and analyze it is the most critical skill of the 21st century, particularly for the environment, which comprises a multitude of complex systems and phenomena. To drive scientific inquiry and reach...
by Data-Driven Lab | Jan 31, 2020 | Climate, Data, UNFCCC
On the sidelines of the latest United Nations climate negotiations in Madrid (COP-25), the Data-Driven Lab in partnership with the Yale OpenLab and the Climate Chain Coalition held an event, “Radical Collaboration: Digital Solutions for Tracking Climate Action.” More...
by Willie Khoo | Dec 11, 2019 | Data, Featured, Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index
The Guggenheim Museum in the City of Bilbao, Spain, is one of the most iconic buildings of modern architecture. Coiled along the Nervion river under the Basque country sun, it is a writhing, breathtaking contortion of titanium, stone, and glass, all polish and sheen,...
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 Willie Khoo | Nov 19, 2019 | Climate, Data
November has been the month of hackathons. Two weeks after co-organizing the Yale-NUS College Datathon, which focused on the Southeast Asian haze crisis, Data-Driven Lab was at It again, this time with the launch of the Open Climate Collabathon in Singapore. The...