The event focused on team problem-solving and analysis to help tackle global questions on environmental and natural hazard-related displacement. It encouraged student participants to utilise their GIS, quantitative methods and/or data visualisation skills to develop new ideas, as well as gain first-hand insight into how data is collected and used in emergency contexts, humanitarian crises, and responses.
As the winners of the hackathon, Jasmine Andean, and Melanie Larre, both pursuing a Global Humanitarian Studies undergraduate degree at UCL, had the opportunity to develop their hackathon idea further together with DTM London from August to September. Their research focused on a comparative analysis between media reports of floods and DTM’s Emergency Tracking Tool (ETT) data on internal displacement driven by flooding in Burundi in 2021. They aimed to determine whether there were differences in the relationship between the severity of an event and the resulting internal displacement across affected locations.
Read the full article on the DTM website and watch their video about the research and their experiences:
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