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Paul Gubbins

@pgubb

I use data, visualization and research to help advance public policies and innovations for a better world.

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linkhttp://pgubb.github.io calendar_today12-11-2010 17:49:50

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The data @climateTrace has pulled together on its platform to catalog and map individual sources of carbon emissions around the world is incredible.

climatetrace.org/approach

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Love seeing this story on the significance of Africa's burgeoning youth demographic in the The New York Times that combines data with personal stories bringing to life what this trend might mean for the region & the world: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

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Wow! This is amazing AI technology that vastly reduces the time and complexity of gleaning insights from satellite imagery. Use cases for this seem endless.

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Incredibly powerful animated visual storytelling from the The New York Times telling the story of Hiroshima survivor Akiko Takakura. nytimes.com/2023/04/04/opi…

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Every dense flagship policy report from the UN, World Bank etc should hire Alexander Skarsgard to communicate the key messages: nytimes.com/2023/03/28/opi…

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Wow. Clearly a major leap in the utility of search. I really like that you can ask it to organize information into tables…

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This was a great webinar highlighting the findings and applications of the World Bank Findex data. I found Jonathan Morduch's short reflections (towards the end of the session) on financial resilience particularly thought provoking and useful. Thanks for this Innovations for Poverty Action!

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Chile’s tax and transfer system does comparatively little to reduce income inequality from earnings. Interesting proposal by @ignaciobriones to expand the use of cash transfers to reduce inequality and incentivize formalization of economic activity.

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