Welcome to the repository of Global Pulse’s ongoing and past work. Find out more about our various collaborations and research projects and experiments analyzing contextual and digital data to gain a real-time understanding of changes in human well-being.
Africa / Kenya / Research
Feasibility Study: Digital Signals & Access to Finance in Kenya
Description
USAID’s Development Credit Authority (DCA) and the Missions it serves seek to identify gaps in access to finance, so that USAID can use partial credit guarantees to fill them. USAID is... Read More Asia / Jakarta Lab
Analysis of Online Media and Price Indices in Indonesia
Description
This research aims at detecting trends in Indonesia-specific online text content (blogs, news posts, social media posts) related to food and fuel prices, to see if they could be... Read More Crowdsourcing / Data Analysis / Data Exhaust / Data Visualisation / Global / MDGs / Research
Understanding the Post-2015 Global Conversation through Big Data
Project Overview:
At the turn of the millennium the United Nations launched a global development framework known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Eight in total, with accompanying... Read More Research
"Big Data for Development: Opportunities & Challenges" - White Paper
Global Pulse White Paper “Big Data for Development: Opportunities & Challenges” (published May 2012) aims to highlight the opportunity, as well as some of the main concerns and challenges, raised... Read More Crisismapping / Crowdsourcing / Data Collection / Geospatial Data / Global / Innovation / Mobile Phones / Remote Sensing / Social Media / Technology
Future of Real-Time Report
Prepared for the United Nations Global Pulse team, the Future of Real-Time Report identifies key trends emerging around the capture and transmission of real-time information streams.
Evolving data-... Read More Data Analysis / Data Visualisation / Europe / Labour / Northern America / Resilience / Social Media / Vulnerability
Unemployment Through the Lens of Social Media
Description:
This project investigates how social media and online user-generated content can be used to enrich the understanding of the changing job conditions in the US and Ireland by analyzing the... Read More Africa / Agriculture / Data Analysis / Europe / Food / Technology / Research
Monitoring Food Security Issues Through News Media
Description:
This project finds emerging trends and organizes thematic clusters in news related to food security issues in French language media from the last 8 years using automated text analysis,... Read More Coping / Data Collection / Global / Mobile Phones
Global Snapshot of Wellbeing - Mobile Survey
Description:
The objective of this ongoing collaborative project is to experiment with new tools that can replicate the standards of traditional household surveys, in real-time on a global scale. In... Read More Data Analysis / Food / Latin America and the Caribbean / Technology
Daily Tracking of Commodity Prices: the e-Bread Index
Description:
This project investigates and shows how scraping online prices could provide real-time insights on price dynamics, focusing on the case of bread in 6 Latin American countries.
Partners:... Read More Asia / Coping / Data Analysis / Northern America / Social Media / Research