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Visualising climate change data in accessible ways can help convince audiences from all backgrounds about the urgency of the climate crisis.
Our latest study finds that the complexities of Indonesia’s COVID-19 data management have contributed to this problem.
Just three big developers are being paid tens of millions of pounds to supply the majority of these UK systems.
Parties who design the technologies and platforms on which mobile apps are built and marketed must be brought within the legal accountability framework to close the privacy loop.
After months of government decision-making based on data, is the public really ready to go it alone?
The WHO is creating a Global Pandemic Radar – an example of collective intelligence that must learn lessons from this pandemic.
You’re probably wrong about how much time you spend on your devices, and that has big implications for the link between device use and mental health.
Autonomous robots hold great promise for the agricultural sector, but it’s vital that the public gets a say in their creation.
The US is shifting to a new set of climate ‘normals’ – data sets averaged over the past 30 years. But normal is a relative concept in a time of climate change.
The growth in information production appears unstoppable.
As the conversation about race and diversity becomes more common, why haven’t we updated our census to reflect that?
Rather than distinctly male or female, the human brain is much more like the heart, kidneys and lungs – basically the same no matter the sex of the body it’s in.
A year of working from home has become normalised for many jobs. We’re now learning a great deal about its effects on the workforce and our lives.
Google’s shift to ‘profiling’ is being billed as a privacy boon – but it’s also a strategic pivot.
A new report from the GovLab and the French Development Agency (AFD) examines how development practitioners are experimenting with emerging forms of technology to advance development goals.
COVID-19 kept many scientists from doing field research in 2020, which means that important records will have data gaps. But volunteers are helping to plug some of those holes.
Data underlies the kinds of applications that are proposed for use in the country’s education system.
Airborne data like this is usually available only to industry and government agencies and researchers — rarely to the public.
The Internet of Things will transform industry, agriculture, and our cities. But we need to consider carefully the risks as well as the rewards.
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Co-Founder of The Data Tank and Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of the Governance Laboratory (GovLab), New York University
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Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, and Demography, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond
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Professor of Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of the Practice of Data Science, Washington University in St. Louis
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Data Science, University of Adelaide
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Former postdoctoral researcher on machine learning applied to chemical engineering and currently science communicator for the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), University of Tokyo
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Director of the International Laboratory of Demography and Human Capital, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Clinical Senior Research Associate, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Higher Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Professor of Law, Griffith University, Griffith University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
