by Amy Weinfurter | May 6, 2019 | Data
On Thursday, May 2, 2019, Luke Hellum, a Yale College data science and statistics and energy studies major, shared the results of his senior capstone research project. Over the past 6 months, he built a statistical R software package that helps clean and organize the...
by Andrew Feierman | Jun 29, 2018 | Data, Energy, Policy
Last month, Data-Driven Yale attended the Blockchain for Social Impact Conference hosted by Consensys’ Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition and the PeaceTech Lab. The conference brought technical groups and social organizations together to explore how blockchain...
by Andrew Feierman | May 15, 2018 | Big Data, Data, Data Visualization
On April 23, over 30 academics, programmers, and hackers from around the world converged in the Östermalm neighborhood in Stockholm, Sweden for the first-ever Evidence Synthesis Hackathon. Hosted by the Stockholm Environmental Institute and co-organized by the...
by Yihao Xie | Mar 28, 2018 | Big Data, China, Data, Data Visualization
“Do or do not, there is no try,” once said great Jedi master Yoda, whose likeness peered out from a tranquil pond below DBS Bank’s Asia X office, located in LucasFilms’ aptly-named Sandcrawler building. Students participating in Yale-NUS’s Data 2.0 Hackathon kept...
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 Amy Weinfurter | May 30, 2017 | Climate, Data
Despite the urgency of climate change, keeping track of global adaptation efforts has proven tricky. Adaptation means different things in different places: in Rotterdam, the creation of parks that can absorb larger, more frequent floods; in Los Angeles, retrofitting...
