by Data4Good | Jan 11, 2021 |
by Noah Wilson-Rich, Beekeeper Bees are dying off in record numbers, but ecologist Noah Wilson-Rich is interested in something else: Where are bees healthy and thriving? To find out, he recruited citizen scientists across the US to set up beehives in their backyards,...
by Data4Good | Jan 7, 2021 |
By Linda Willing, FireChief.com Gathering data for inspection and data for learning must be seen as a positive tool rather than as a way of potentially punishing someone When I was an officer at the fire station nearest the University of Colorado, our station had more...
by Data4Good | Dec 18, 2020 |
by GRACE HUCKINS, Wired.com Volunteers let an AI scan their messages from more than a year before they received a psychiatric diagnosis. It was able to flag signs of their conditions. It’s easy to do bad things with Facebook data. From targeting ads for...
by Data4Good | Dec 16, 2020 |
by UN News, news.un.org Statistics are “fundamental for evidence-based policymaking…[and] drive the transformations that are needed”, in order to ensure no-one is left behind, upheld Secretary-General António Guterres. And the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the...
by Data4Good | Dec 3, 2020 |
by Mark Minevich, Forbes The world’s biodiversity status is in crisis mode––and Covid-19 has only exacerbated this reality. Covid has served as a stark reminder that negative interactions with species can directly impact our lives. As of 1970, the world has seen a...
