Tobias Lunt

Co-founder @devdatalab. Tinkerer, learner, cook, life enthusiast. Data for a purpose.

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

We built an interactive site showing air pollution vs GDP changes in cities around the world.

Some highlights in this thread, and you can try it yourself.

Here are the biggest three cities in India (Yellow), China (red), and Germany (Orange).

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[Stephen Kennedy @oh_sk]

Making maps of 📍Madison for the #30DayMapChallenge!

For Day 1 “points,” I pulled the street tree dataset from @CityofMadison (HT @mpusto!) and categorized each species by fall foliage color 🍁.

Mapped using @UFPlatform #gis #mapdesign #cartography #madewithUF

[IFPRI @IFPRI]

♨️️ @IFPRI's 2022 Global Food Policy Report is out NOW!

📌 "#ClimateChange and #FoodSystems"

📚 12 chapters of the latest food policy insights

Check out the #GFPR2022 website 👉 https://t.co/CVRvVG4ZX8

@CGIAR #OneCGIAR #OpenAccess

[Anup Malani @anup_malani]

New Substack posts on India's progress with vaccination.

These posts are joint with Stuti Sachdeva & @profmohanan. It relies on vaccination data from @devdatalab (Thanks @thesamasher @paulnovosad Toby)

https://t.co/Nob2zkacaA

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

We (ie. @tobylunt) made a district-level COVID forecast for India: https://t.co/avTssKmBk3

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

[Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey]

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)

[Tobias Lunt @tobylunt]

@FrankBauch @KenAkiha Hahaha Ken was definitely the Giannis of the backyard

[Sam Asher @thesamasher]

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 @paulnovosad @tobiaslunt @ryu_matsuura

[Sam Asher @thesamasher]

🚨📊🚌Migration data now available on our COVID-19 India open data hub (https://t.co/JlU2Z1BJ99), contributed by/thanks to @clem_imbert @John_S_Firth. Blue map shows migrant destinations currently sending people home, green map shows migrant origins they’re returning to. (1/2)

[Tobias Lunt @tobylunt]

@quintonconroy @ortambo_int @nicd_sa did you get an answer to this? i can't find any information about transit passengers from high-risk countries who are passing through tambo en route to elsewhere.

[Ideas for India @Ideas4India]

The SHRUG: A new high-resolution data platform for research on India - Samuel Asher @thesamasher @JohnsHopkins Tobias Lunt @tobylunt @DevDataLab Paul Novosad @paulnovosad @dartmouth https://t.co/c1EpEzXvvm

[Last Week Tonight @LastWeekTonight]

Internet commenters: Visit https://t.co/7BXwaar6k3 and urge the FCC to keep strong net neutrality rules backed by Title II.

[Tobias Lunt @tobylunt]

An important perspective into fixing what ails science: https://t.co/VunPhk0onn

[Tobias Lunt @tobylunt]

This is incredible! Check out A Gathering of Giants at @biographic https://t.co/SILARC4Etm

[Tobias Lunt @tobylunt]

Heineken Just Put Out The Antidote to That Pepsi Kendall Jenner Ad https://t.co/Hp0VyfVBg5

[Tobias Lunt @tobylunt]

Whoa. Important read. Aid in reverse: how poor countries develop rich countries | Jason Hickel https://t.co/YJOAsvc5fl

[Tobias Lunt @tobylunt]

@senronjohnson - from a voter in your district: please consider Carbon Fee and Dividend to address #climate change. @citizensclimate

[Tobias Lunt @tobylunt]

Anti-corruption experts made an Executive Order for #donaldtrump. Sign it to #draintheswamp! https://t.co/8erZXm7XgW

[Tobias Lunt @tobylunt]

“Dear Senator Johnson: To support our state, you must support environmental policy” by @osanderfoot https://t.co/bXOUsxv6BV