Previous Dives

Research Dive 10: Research Dive 10: Inclusive Development and Humanitarian Responses

THEME: INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT AND HUMANITARIAN RESPONSES

DATE: 12 JUNE 2023

Pulse Lab Jakarta is collaborating with Saraswati, in partnership with CBM Global Disability Inclusion and Data Science Indonesia, for an upcoming Research Dive for Development focusing on inclusivity. Persons with Disabilities often face disadvantages and have higher barriers to enjoying the same human rights and freedoms as their non-disabled counterparts. These barriers include inadequate data and evidence. The upcoming Research Dive aims to identify the knowledge and data gaps to promote more relevant and higher-quality data by enhancing researchers' familiarity with several data sets, including data on disability collected by the government, such as socio-economic surveys and data for disability, such as schools for children with disability. By bringing together stakeholders and exploring new ways for data integration, Research Dive has the potential to advance our understanding of disability and improve outcomes for persons with disabilities.

Research Dive 9: Household Vulnerability

THEME: HOUSEHOLD VULNERABILITY

DATE: 05 AUGUST 2019

Pulse Lab Jakarta is collaborating with Bank Indonesia’s Macroprudential Policy Department for an upcoming research dive for development that focuses on household vulnerability. Understanding household financial vulnerability is important for financial system stability, because households are deeply interconnected with financial institutions and non-financial corporations. In its macroprudential policy-making, Bank Indonesia needs to measure household financial vulnerability to mitigate systemic risks, improve intermediary functions, and increase financial system efficiency. Bank Indonesia intends to explore how big data can be used to measure household financial vulnerability alongside its banking indicators and survey results. To read the TOR, please go through this link: bit.ly/RDHV-info.

Research Dive 8: Financial Inclusion

THEME: STATISTICS, ECONOMICS, COMPUTER SCIENCE, IMAGE MINING

DATE: 25 NOVEMBER 2018

What better way to dive into this critical research but with a mixed group of passionate participants, bringing together skills and experiences across academia, government and the private sector combined. Examining the various dimensions of financial inclusion, what financial inclusion means for Indonesian society in particular, as well as the progress made and challenges that are ahead, four research areas were outlined to help answer pressing policy and development questions.

Research Dive 7: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Estimating Poverty

THEME: STATISTICS, ECONOMICS, COMPUTER SCIENCE, IMAGE MINING

DATE: 15 JULY 2018

Research Dive: AI and Machine Learning for Poverty aims to contribute in addressing the poverty issues by employing big data such as satellite imagery, e-commerce data, social media, and socio-economic data, among others. The seventh research dive aims to generate insights on how to leverage new datasets and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for getting insights on poverty across Indonesia. There are four tasks that are given to participants: (1) Estimating poverty at the provincial level; (2) Estimating poverty at the city level; (3) Estimating poverty at the district level; (4) Estimating poverty at the household level.

Research Dive 6: Urban and Regional Development

THEME: URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING

DATE: 25 MARCH 2018

Data-driven-city, smart cities, are few names of phenomenon which leveraging the use of new types of data, innovation and latest technology to better understanding dynamics of the city for developing sustainable and resilient city. The sixth Research Dive hopes to enhance the familiarity of researchers with several datasets, to generate insights on water access, energy consumption, health, and regional development.

Research Dive 5: Transportation

THEME: TRANSPORTATION

DATE: 19 NOVEMBER 2017

Data-driven approach for developing intelligent transportation system is vital, to improve traffic management and to enhance transportation network. The upcoming research dive for development on transportation will enhancing the familiarity of researchers with several datasets, including, toll data, traffic CCTV data, public transportation data, among others. The research dive plans to generate insights on improvements of transportation system, transportation networks, and public transportation.

Research Dive 4: Trade and Competitiveness

THEME: TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS

DATE: 06 AUGUST 2017

Pulse Lab Jakarta, in collaboration with OLX Indonesia, is organizing a research event, Research Dive for Development: Trade and Competitiveness, in which academics, industry professionals and other researchers will dive into various datasets and produce new methods and analysis. The event will take place from 6th to 9th August 2017 at the Pulse Lab Jakarta office. The four topics are: Task 1 - Analysis of port network connectivity, national or ASEAN-wide, using global marine vessel automatic identification system data Task 2 - Analysis of inter-city connectivity in Indonesia, using e-commerce data Task 3 - Analysis of proxies in e-commerce data for city-level and national economic trends and shocks Task 4 - Analysis of correlations between postal network data and trade network data within ASEAN

Research Dive 3: Statistics for Sustainable Development Goals

THEME: STATISTICS

DATE: 12 MARCH 2017

Realizing the needs of quality, accessible, timely and reliable disaggregated data not only to better measure the achievements of the 17 Goals but also to better implement SDGs, Pulse Lab Jakarta hosted statistics researchers or practitioners, who have relevant research experiences to statistical problems related to SDGs to analyzing 15-year MDGs indicator data in (sub-) national level.

Research Dive 2: Image Mining for Disaster Management

THEME: COMPUTER SCIENCE, IMAGE MINING

DATE: 13 NOVEMBER 2016

Pulse Lab Jakarta in collaboration with UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) Indonesia, invited 16 image processing researchers and GIS enthusiast, advisors, and domain experts from 14 different universities and government research institutions, to analyse image-based datasets from social media, satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) with the eventual aim of developing tools to better manage a disaster. Researchers were tasked on image classification and inference of visibility levels from hazy images, impacts quantification of volcanic eruption, and modelling risks and assessing hazards of landslides.

Research Dive 1: Natural Language Processing for Sustainable Development

THEME: COMPUTER SCIENCE, NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

DATE: 22 JULY 2016

Pulse Lab Jakarta had launched Translator Gator, a people-powered language game to support research initiatives in Indonesia by translating a pre-defined set of 2,000 English keywords and phrases related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to six Indonesian languages (Bahasa Indonesia, Jawa, Sunda, Bugis, Minang, and Melayu). After gathered more than 109,000 user contributions from hundreds of players from across Indonesia, 19 computational linguistic experts and advisors from 18 different universities and government research institutions were invited assess the quality of the translations, visualize the data to make better sense of it, and fill in important translation gaps.

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