Searchlight: Visualization and Analysis of Trend Data Project

Principal Investigators:  Prof. Adil Najam and Prof. Suchi Gopal

Can we use contextual regional and national trends to identify and highlight emerging global trends?

Can an appreciation of today’s great challenges help us identify actions for a better tomorrow?

These are the questions at the heart of the Pardee Center’s efforts on the Visualization and Analysis of Trend Data project sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Using data from organizations that observe and monitor regional trends on a number of societal issues in various parts of the world, the Pardee Center team is working to develop sophisticated methods to systematically visualize, analyze, and draw conclusions from these regional trends. The goal is to identify and visually represent key ideas and themes emerging from regional trend analyses in a way that is user-friendly, globally accessible, policy relevant and useful to policymakers and scholars as well as other trend analysis programs.

The preliminary findings of the Pardee Center’s efforts will be reviewed by an interdisciplinary team of experts and the results will be distributed as a Pardee Center publication.  A special event will be held to introduce the final report and its findings.

News Related to this Project:

- Pardee Center Received Rockefeller Grant for Foresight Research
- Pardee Center Research Presented at Rockefeller Meeting in Bangkok