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The SHRUG: A new high-resolution data platform for research on India - Samuel Asher Sam Asher Johns Hopkins University Tobias Lunt Tobias Lunt @DevDataLab Paul Novosad Paul Novosad Dartmouth 🌲 ideasforindia.in/topics/miscell…

🚨📊🚌Migration data now available on our COVID-19 India open data hub (github.com/devdatalab/cov…), contributed by/thanks to Clément Imbert John Firth. Blue map shows migrant destinations currently sending people home, green map shows migrant origins they’re returning to. (1/2)

Are night lights (NL) a reliable proxy for local GDP? An answer, in our paper “Development Research at High Geographic Resolution” aka the SHRUG paper (forthcoming at WBER). 🧵1/14 TL;DR: don’t trust existing GDP elasticities. With Paul Novosad @tobiaslunt @ryu_matsuura

Here’s how often each Columbus police officer used force against people from 2001-2018. Some used force at substantially higher rates. But how often were they held accountable? A thread. (1/x)

We (ie. Tobias Lunt) made a district-level COVID forecast for India: devdatalab.org/covid-forecast A lot of places are past the peak of the second wave. In a lot of places, case counts are still rising. We show Rt calculated from a model based on Bettencourt and Soman (2020). 🧵1/3

New Substack posts on India's progress with vaccination. These posts are joint with Stuti Sachdeva & Manoj Mohanan. It relies on vaccination data from Development Data Lab (Thanks Sam Asher Paul Novosad Toby) anupmalani.substack.com/p/vaccination-…

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Making maps of 📍Madison for the #30DayMapChallenge! For Day 1 “points,” I pulled the street tree dataset from City of Madison, Wisconsin (HT Mary Pustejovsky (@[email protected])!) and categorized each species by fall foliage color 🍁. Mapped using UrbanFootprint #gis #mapdesign #cartography #madewithUF

Sexist Political Criticism Finds a New Target: Kellyanne Conway nyti.ms/2n3RmQO

Very much worth a read. x.com/GlobalEcoGuy/s…

Drought and war are leading to a 4-nation African famine, the "biggest humanitarian disaster since World War II" nytimes.com/2017/03/27/wor…

“Dear Senator Johnson: To support our state, you must support environmental policy” by @osanderfoot medium.com/@osanderfoot/d…

Anti-corruption experts made an Executive Order for #donaldtrump. Sign it to #draintheswamp! thndr.me/CLQTsS

Whoa. Important read. Aid in reverse: how poor countries develop rich countries | Jason Hickel theguardian.com/global-develop…

Heineken Just Put Out The Antidote to That Pepsi Kendall Jenner Ad fastcompany.com/40412848/heine…

This is incredible! Check out A Gathering of Giants at bioGraphic goo.gl/haUhaJ

An important perspective into fixing what ails science: nature.com/news/no-resear…

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