Your Search Engine’s Secret: The Gallons of Water Behind Data Consumption
How many gigabytes of data do you consume every month? In an era where accessing websites, downloading files and scrolling through social media feeds is second nature, we rarely consider how much data we are consuming, or its environmental cost. Researchers
How Leaders Can Make Sound Decisions on COVID-19 With Scarce Data To Guide Them
COVID-19 presents an unprecedented predicament: Every day, leaders must make momentous decisions with life or death consequences for many—but there is a dearth of data. In this interview with Impakter, Oded Netzer - a Columbia business professor and Data Science Institute
How Digital Technology is Democratizing Data for Rural Businesses
How a platform that cooperative employees can use to upload data directly from the field to the cloud helps to overcome the impacts of climate change and the lack of educational opportunities in rural areas. The town of Lonya Grande sits
Hungry for Data, Starving the World
There are 5.9 million Instagram posts tagged #EcoFriendly. There’s no doubt that people all over the world, online and off, are waking up to the devastating impact that we are having on the planet. Never before has there been such
Bogotá’s Fight for Gender Equality and Safe Public Transport
What should a city do if half of its population cannot access a public service? It sounds like a somewhat outlandish question, but for Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia, this question highlights a frustrating reality. Although the city has
Data-Driven Credit: An Interview with First Access
When a person goes to the bank to get a loan, it comes with an associated cost; the interest rate. But the interest rates two people receive, even for the same amount of money, can be quite different. That can
Pavegen, paving the way to sustainability. Interview with Laurence Kemball-Cook
Founded by Laurence Kemball-Cook, Pavegen is an exciting company which seeks to harvest energy and data from human footsteps. Achieving greater sustainability and working to reverse climate change are increasingly necessary objectives, and Pavegen’s unique technologies seek to do just
Polis, the door-to-door app.
Polis is a start-up from Massachusetts founded by Kendall Tucker in 2015. It sells data and softwares to organizations that go door-to-door. For two years Polis has been selling the most advanced door-to-door app in politics, before expanding into door-to-door
The future of agriculture: data-driven farming with GrainSense
Farmers are continuously faced with complicated decisions to ensure the quality and yield of their crops without proper information. They also need reliable information about the quality of their output in order to set the price when they come
Big Data Working Towards Health and Human Development
We live in the era of mass information whereby phrases such as big data and data science ring a bell to most laypersons. However, most of us tend to set those concepts aside into a complex field of expertise that
Internet of Things: Threat to Our Privacy?
Imagine your home ten years from now: you wake up and the fridge has ordered your milk and favorite cereal the day before. You go for a run and your shirt monitors how many calories you burned. When you start
How Business Analytics is Disrupting the Sports Industry
There are two types of analytics within the sports industry. The first one – sports analytics – was created in the 1970’s by Bill James who was first to use statistics in baseball. Michael Lewis then popularized it thanks to