David Corliss highlights various Data for Good initiatives addressing environmental challenges, including marine microplastics tracking, frog population monitoring, pollinator studies, and community garden research, while encouraging collaboration through local ASA chapters.
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The 2024 Challenge List: This Year’s Most Important Questions in Data for Good
This annual call to action highlights a challenge in five areas: biostatistics; environmental advocacy; human rights; data; and organization and infrastructure. Learn how you can tackle one or more.
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: A World of Opportunity in Data for Good
This month, David Corliss looks at all 17 United Nations’ sustainable development goals, projects, and resources and proposes ways statisticians can get involved.
The 2023 Challenge List: Most Important Questions in Data for Good
David Corliss starts the year off with a challenge list that shines a light on exciting new opportunities and is meant to encourage the D4G community to tackle overlooked or under-resourced concerns.
Statistics at the Tipping Point: Data for Good in Environmental Advocacy
Environmental dangers are often described in terms of tipping points—a maximum greenhouse gas level, the total human population our planet can support, or the increase in temperature triggering a large rise in sea levels. As much as we hear about tipping points for environmental disasters, the concept itself is benign: a mathematical threshold in a small value that, when crossed, leads to a large change in something else. Examples of statistics at the tipping point are all around us, and all of us can participate in making a difference for good.