{"id":1629,"date":"2019-09-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/dighr\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2025-08-06T14:21:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:21:59","slug":"project-update-emergency-data-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/dighr\/project-update-emergency-data-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Update: Emergency Data Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much has happened since December 2018, when the Dahdaleh Institute and the Lassonde School of Engineering hosted <a href=\"http:\/\/dighr.yorku.ca\/projects\/health-emergency-data-science\/\">Emergency Data Science: Taking Advantage of the Data Flood<\/a> (EDS) at 快播视频, where project organizers aimed to take concrete steps towards solutions to data challenges that are facing humanitarian organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Despite, or perhaps because of, the enormity of the challenges brought to the workshop, real progress has been made. Partnerships have been formed and tools have been created and launched.<\/p>\n<p>Read below and follow the links for an update on the challenges presented at last year's workshop.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h5>Building a Global Nutrition Survey Data Platform for Humanitarian Crises<\/h5>\n<h6>Presented by Action Against Hunger Canada\/Action contre la faim (ACF)<\/h6>\n<p>ACF participated in EDS looking to develop a new Global Nutrition Dashboard, a part of the new SMART+ toolkit they were developing to streamline the collection, management, and interpretation of nutritional assessment data in emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>Since the workshop, ACF developed new research grant applications and completed an exploration of technical design options for the components of the SMART+ toolkit. They launched work to build these tools over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emergencydatascience.org\/challenge_global-nutrition-dashboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h5>Finding Life-Saving Information in Routine Water Quality Monitoring Data<\/h5>\n<h6>Presented by Doctors Without Borders\/M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF)<\/h6>\n<p>MSF set out to develop a decision-support tool that can take routine water quality monitoring data and use it to generate site-specific chlorination guidance that ensures water is safe to drink in refugee\/IDP camps.<\/p>\n<p>Since the workshop, the team has developed the analytical back-end of the tool and is now building the front-end website where field users can access the tool. A primary field trial has been launched in refugee camps in Bangladesh with MSF. Two more remote field tests will be conducted with UNCHR in the Fall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emergencydatascience.org\/challenge_safe-water-optimization-tool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h5>Improving Humanitarian Needs Assessments Through Natural Language Processing<\/h5>\n<h6>Presented by the International Rescue Committee (IRC)<\/h6>\n<p>The IRC's challenge concerned the lack of qualitative methods in humanitarian surveys. They looked to use Natural Language Processing (NLP) to automate processing & analysis of open-ended responses garnered from various types of humanitarian data collection methods.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately following EDS, the Dahdaleh Institute convened a day-long meeting with a smaller working group. The team has since begun building the required transcription and translation models and identifying sites for a pilot project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emergencydatascience.org\/challenge_nlp_surveys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h5>Making Sense of WASH Information in South Sudan<\/h5>\n<h6>Presented by REACH Initiative<\/h6>\n<p>REACH's challenge was to develop a WASH Information Management Platform for South Sudan to address difficulties faced by the country's WASH Cluster in keeping tracking of what information is available and up to date.<\/p>\n<p>At the workshop, REACH was encouraged by the IFRC\u2019s presentation. It showed how an agency could build its own ecosystem of services from scratch. As a result, REACH started to experiment with AWS's Amplify and AppSync, a serverless framework for building web apps. REACH has drafted a version of this and is working on a production version to be live shortly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emergencydatascience.org\/challenge_wash_south-sudan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h5>\"One Stop Shop\" for WASH info for refugees and IDPs<\/h5>\n<h6>Presented by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)<\/h6>\n<p>UNHCR\u2019s challenge focused on developing a WASH Data Portal that would be a \u201cone-stop shop\u201d for WASH insights for all UNHCR project sites globally. <\/p>\n<p>Guided by the agile development methodology presented at EDS, UNHCR has built and is refining a new WASH Dashboard for Refugee Settings (pictured above), which is now live and used by UNHCR Country Programs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emergencydatascience.org\/challenge_WASH-data-portal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h5>Taking Advantage of Cash Delivery Data<\/h5>\n<h6>Presented by Catholic Relief Services (CRS)<\/h6>\n<p>CRS\u2019 challenge focused on how we can improve cash- and market-based programming in humanitarian crises though more objective, timely, and automated response analysis that leverages new Big Data capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>During the workshop, CRS connected with researchers from 快播视频\u2019s Centre for Refugee Studies. They have launched a collaborative project to develop data modelling and decision-support tools using CRS\u2019 aggregated cash and market intervention data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emergencydatascience.org\/challenge_cash_data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><i>Image Credit: UNHCR WASH Dashboard for Refugee Settings\/2019<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much has happened since December 2018, when the Dahdaleh Institute and the Lassonde School of Engineering hosted Emergency Data Science: Taking Advantage of the Data Flood (EDS) at 快播视频, where project organizers aimed to take concrete steps towards solutions to data challenges that are facing humanitarian organizations. 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