CommonThread is an open-source collaborative tool that enables users to turn stories into insights. Community-based organizations, journalists, researchers, and community members alike can use the tool to efficiently gather stories, aggregate them, and understand common threads to draw insights for action.

To access the repo: https://github.com/uchicago-capp-30320/CommonThread 

This project seeks to explore the multifaceted impacts of climate change and its distributional effects on communities across the United States.  We aim to understand how climate-induced factors such as floods, heatwaves, and hurricanes disproportionately affect vulnerable populations particularly in redlined communities. Leveraging data from the EPA, FEMA, Richmond Redlining dataset, Census, and a well-designed Climate Vulnerability Index, we will provide a tool to explore the ways climate change will affect communities differently and how those impacts may (or may not) disproportionately affect marginalized groups. This project focuses on Chicago, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Seattle, Dallas, and Houston, selected for their diversity in climate vulnerability.  

Project site: https://uchicago-mscapp-projects.github.io/projects/planet-status-code-404/ 

To access the repo: https://github.com/Planet-Status-Code-404/Final-Project 

Co-author: Erim Ucluok

To access or cite data: https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/j448jgx6p2/3 

Prepared for Transparency International