If you missed the supernova of creativity that was the Data Revolution for Policy Makers Conference, catch up with the action on Storify and Flickr. Conference proceedings to follow in next month's edition of Datavores.
We recently teamed-up with the Executive Office of the President of Indonesia and WFP to track the impact of climate anomalies on vulnerable populations across Indonesia.
PLJ worked with Pusdatin Bappenas to run a series of data innovation clinics for policy analysts within the Ministry. It was also a good chance to test out UN Global Pulse’s data innovation toolkit.
"The big mistake in this pattern of failure is projecting your subjective lack of comprehension onto the object you are looking at, as “irrationality.” We make this mistake because we are tempted by a desire for legibility."
"The ways we relate to data are evolving more rapidly than we realize, and our minds and bodies are naturally adapting to this new hybrid reality built of both physical and informational structures."
Data scientist Charlie Thompson recently used the programming language R to find a data-driven determination of Radiohead’s most depressing song.
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