March 29, 2021
By Camber
When imagining the future of innovation, most people conjure up an image of Silicon Valley and the next billion-dollar tech-startup being run out of a garage. It’s an understandable relationship, as the faces of recent innovation —people like Elon Musk …
March 1, 2021
By Ian Allen
Camber’s first meeting with Dr. Caroline Buckee – the Associate Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard School of Public Health – was a watermark event for the company. It was March of 2020, the first lockdown orders ha …
January 26, 2021
By Camber
Last week, President Joe Biden announced his goal of vaccinating 100 million Americans in his first 100 days in office. Equitably distributing a vaccine to that many Americans now stands as the country’s final and most daunting task to defeat the pande …
January 13, 2021
By Ian Allen
Camber was founded to empower leaders with the high-quality data and insights they need to build a safer and more equitable world. Whatever else can be said of 2020, it was a year of opportunities to do just this. Working with universities, cities, sta …
January 8, 2021
By Dave Zvenyach
I recently was named a member of the Mayor’s Open Government Advisory Group. Among the things that the Group will be tasked with is “[e]stablish[ing] specific criteria for agency identification of additional datasets.” Much has been written on the publ …
December 1, 2020
By Navin Vembar
Despite the fact that we’re seeing COVID-19 cases and deaths rise and most of the country under increasing risk, people still traveled more than they had in the prior weeks, in some cases by quite a lot. Though, generally, when they went to an out-of-s …
November 30, 2020
By Navin Vembar
Raw data can be toxic. I’m not the first person to say this – that collecting, storing, and processing data should be treated as a dangerous process of refinement. When discussing mobility data, this is even more so the case – deanonymizing movement da …
October 13, 2020
By Dave Zvenyach
Dave Zvenyach is a Camber advisor, helping us build bridges and develop thought leadership across policy, technology, and business as we leverage inspired data analytics for the public good.
September 29, 2020
By Andrew Schroeder , Nishant Kishore , Navin Vembar , Caleb Dresser
According to long-term displacement data from Facebook, population displacement from Calcasieu Parish has been gender skewed to a degree that demands further investigation.
