Sociology graduate student Maria Isabel Espinoza and Melissa Aronczyk (Rutgers School of Communication and Information) published an article in Big Data & Society that finds that “Data for good” initiatives around climate change are more about corporate PR and risk management than achieving global environmental sustainability goals.

“Big Data for Climate Action or Climate Action for Big Data?” Big Data & Society 8.1 (2021). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053951720982032