Join the Geospatial Forum for "Global Data for Local Action: Saving the World One Data Dashboard at a Time." The World Resources Institute is a large environmental nongovernmental organization that, among other things, provides geospatial data and analyses to local governments to support sustainable urban planning. Ted Wong, a data scientist at the World Resources Institute's Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, will examine how the institute builds and deploys data products that support city-level planning and decision-making for extreme heat, urban biodiversity and decarbonization. Wong will discuss theories of change, user research, project-level business models, strategies for mainstreaming, representation of uncertainty and the technical considerations behind the institute’s data products.

You can attend Wong's talk in person at 5103 Jordan Hall or watch it live.