Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping and Policymaking

Prof. Vipin Kumar from the University of Minnesota led a conversation on opportunities for climate change mitigation and adaptation. @kdd_news #KDD2022 #DatadrivenHumanitarianMapping

How do we strengthen e-participation and co-planning in city project planning and design? Authors from the third paper session at the #KDD2022 #DatadrivenHumanitarianMapping workshop describe a new web app to achieve greater urban homeostasis.

How do we model movements under uncertainty? @khof312 and collaborators at UNHCR @Refugees and @UNGlobalPulse present three such metrics in a novel decision support system for humanitarian crises @kdd_news #DatadrivenHumanitarianMapping

Can modeling airport similarities help us better prepare for humanitarian disaster response? @radmery94 and @KarlitaSaldana present their analysis of over 900 airports worldwide @kdd_news #KDD2022 #DatadrivenHumanitarianMapping

Invited panelists @OskarGstrein from the University of Groningen and Alex Pompe from Meta discussed academia and industry insights on "Privacy Preserving Methods and Post Crisis Data Exhaust" @kdd_news #KDD2022 #DatadrivenHumanitarianMapping

.@alex_pentland (MIT Media Lab) gave a keynote speech on "The Politics of Data-Driven Humanitarian Mapping: Making Systems that Work for Everyone", sharing data-driven insights and mechanisms for federated data in the future @kdd_news #KDD2022 #DatadrivenHumanitarianMapping

.@JosephPBullock and @litonidas from UNGP (UN Global Pulse) shared a vision of a multi-AI complex systems and how it will be applied in humanitarian response. @kdd_news #KDD2022 #DatadrivenHumanitarianMapping

Saydeh N Karabatis and @VandanaJaneja from UMBC presented "Creating Geospatial Trajectories from Text Corpora" for human trafficking application @kdd_news #KDD2022 #DatadrivenHumanitarianMapping

Invited speaker Marta Gonzalez @martikagv from UC-Berkeley shared three projects that leverage digital traces for transport planning under natural disasters, assessing air quality, and modeling mitigation for fire risks @kdd_news #KDD2022 #DatadrivenHumanitarianMapping

Samira Barzin from the University of Oxford (work with @junrentschler and @NeaveOClery) presents a machine learning approach for high resolution urban employment prediction in developing countries. @kdd_news #KDD2022 #DatadrivenHumanitarianMapping

Emily Aiken and @jblumenstock from UC Berkeley presents the accuracy, fairness, and policy implications of using satellite imagery information for poverty mapping. @kdd_news #KDD2022 #DatadrivenHumanitarianMapping

Sungwon Park from KAIST gives a talk on how we can learn economic indicators by aggregating multi-level geospatial information obtained from satellite imagery. @kdd_news #KDD2022 #DatadrivenHumanitarianMapping

Panel 1: How to fill the gaps of missing data, validation, representation, and applications in data-driven mapping and decision-making in humanitarian contexts? @nekozzang @future_andi @IDEAMAPSNetwork @nicerawanjiruki shared their insights #DatadrivenHumanitarianMapping

Last paper session authors discussed pushing government's boundary, the pro of adding participatory mapping, and collecting health data at scale, moderated by @BondiElizabeth #DatadrivenHumanitarianMapping #KDD2021

COVID-19 has impacted people emotionally. Yuchen Chai and his team @JianghaoWang @Siqi_MIT @yichun_fan analyzed social media posts to see when and at what topics do people fear COVID-19. Preprint is available here: arxiv.org/abs/2107.12606 #DatadrivenHumanitarianMapping #KDD2021

Iris C. Liu (USC) and her teammates calculated a restuarant-level nutrition indicator and ground-truth the data with Nutritionix. As such they constructed a continuous indicator of food environment nutritional quality. #DatadrivenHumanitarianMapping #KDD2021

Having accurate and timely data on confirmed active COVID-19 cases is challenging since it depends on testing capacity and available infrastructure to perform tests and aggregate results. A team of researchers tried: arxiv.org/abs/2108.03284 #DatadrivenHumanitarianMapping #KDD2021