Measured Insights
The latest blog posts from our research projects.
Tracking Climate Change Adaptation: Methodological Challenges in the Age of Big 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...
Creating a Research Roadmap: The Second Climate Action Analysis Working Group Meeting
Across 2017 and 2018, a series of events aims to track and speed the world’s progress towards the goals of the historic Paris Climate Agreement. During the 2018 Facilitative Dialogue, for instance, national governments will take stock of their collective...
Data-Driven Yale at American Association of Geographers 2017
Researcher Ryan Thomas participated in the AAG panel discussion, “Framing Urban Sustainability: Smart, Efficient, Green, or Just?” Read a summary of the talk here.
Seeking input on new urban environmental assessment indicators
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...
Sipping from a Fire Hose: Connecting Data to Policy in Two Upcoming Workshops
Between 2005 and 2013, the size of the digital universe - the space held by the digital information created, replicated, and consumed in a single year - grew by a factor of 33. Big data’s footprint has grown accordingly, fed by data streams that convey ever-greater...
How do cities and regions leverage connections to reach their climate goals?
Cities and regions play an increasingly active role in driving climate action forward. In the landmark Paris climate negotiations, more than 400 city mayors and subnational representatives made climate pledges alongside Fortune 500 CEOs and national governments. In...
Data 1.0: An Introduction to Hackathons
“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...
HIRING! Summer Research Assistant Postions
General Purpose Data-Driven Yale is seeking summer student research assistants to contribute a range of projects aimed to bring quantitative rigor and analysis to environmental policymaking. Research projects include measuring urban environmental performance;...
Data-Driven Yale at COP-22: A Day in the Conference
By Ross Rauber and Aadit Gupta The 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP-22)—held to begin implementing the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement—arrived in the shadow of two major events. The first was its landmark predecessor, the Paris Climate Agreement, at which...
From Citizens to Satellites: Third Wave Data Approaches in China
China’s environmental management faces a key crossroad. Its transformation into the world’s second largest economy has generated industrial growth and increased consumption. The resulting air pollution, rising greenhouse gas emissions, and soil and water contamination...
