I have attached my draft below and here is the direction.
Directions: You are to write a 1-2 page paper as an exercise in understanding your own relationship as an emerging actor and as a data scientist focused on urban issues. This paper should include your experiences with identity, power, and access, and connections to the populations that you may serve. It should reflect these questions to related domains around city life experiences (i.e., housing, transportation, health, etc).
Formatting for this assignment should be single or 1.5 spaced, and be no more than 2 pages. You may use endnotes for this assignment.
Questions to help you address this statement may include:
Who are you? Tell the reader about your background and how you came to the path of urban data science.
In what way has your personal experience and academic training influenced how you think about the needs of an urban city?
What areas do you consider a challenge to be addressed?
How important is the role and context of people and communities to your work as an emerging data scientist?
In what ways will your work serve to inform and be informed by data science policies?
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XXX grew up in a small, picturesque city in southern China, surrounded by mountains and rivers, where she learned to love nature. Humans depend on nature utterly for our survival. Humans receive numerous benefits from nature. From the air we breathe to the water we drink to the food we eat, nature improves our health and provides us with the necessities for survival. However, as cities continue developing, urban pollution becomes a serious problem. Gases from burning fossil fuels and exhaust fumes from cars, factories, and power generators are constantly polluting the air in cities. As a result, she started to think about what she can do for the environment and mother nature. She majored in Environmental Studies and minored in Atmospheric and Oceanic science as an undergraduate at the University of XXX.
After four years of academic training in natural science, she learned that the majority of carbon emissions are anthropogenic, and our planet has only until 2030 to reach the point of no return for global warming. Global warming and climate change are the most challenging problems in the 21 century. According to the United Nations, city as a key contributor to climate change, is responsible for 75 percent of global CO2 emissions, with transport and buildings being among the largest contributors. City as a place that has a high population density, is vulnerable to catastrophic climate change. To stem catastrophic climate change and protect people from its adverse effects (e.g., extreme weather events, public health, etc.), technology-driven solutions and data-driven policy implementations are needed.
In 2021, she joined the Applied Urban Science and Informatics master program at XXX to seek ways to improve the city’s living environment, and humans’ quality of life by learning the cutting-Edge Technologies for Smart City Development and useful data analysis tools for addressing urban issues such as environmental pollution and public health issues. As an emerging data scientist with a specialization in solving urban problems, her capstone project focuses on how urban morphology (urban surfaces, urban greenery, and urban form) shapes thermal environments in New York City and Athens for solving extreme summertime temperature issues in recent years. Through different geospatial analyses, this project would provide incisive, data-driven urban heat mitigation solutions for government officials to take action in the future.
