RCRC Data Science

Collection of data science projects and resources in the IFRC network, roughly divided by area of application. Its main purpose is to raise awareness of what other National Societies are doing to motivate bilateral exchanges. If there is any error in the information provided please open an issue. If you want to add a new project, send us an email or open a pull request.

1. Disasters, Climate and Crises

Project	Description	RCRC Member	Team
COVID-19 Vulnerability Index	Identify areas vulnerable to the effects of COVID-19. Code available here.	British Red Cross	Strategic Insight and Foresight. Contact here.
Resilience Index	Resilience Index combining vulnerability and capacity to cope for UK geographies. Code available here.	British Red Cross	Strategic Insight and Foresight. Contact here.
Impact Based forecasting (IBF) System	Trigger, manage and execute RCRC Early Action Protocols (EAP) for natural disasters. Currently supporting several forecasting models (flood, heavy rainfall, tropical cyclone, dengue). Code available here.	Netherlands Red Cross	510. Contact here.
Classification of DREF Lessons Learnt	Classify lessons learnt according to PER categories. Code available here.	IFRC	Information Management. Contact here.
Building Detection Model	Automated Building Detection Model from Satellite Images. Code available here.	Netherlands Red Cross	510. Contact here.
Damage Assessment Model	Automated Damage Assessment from Satellite Images. Code available here.	Netherlands Red Cross	510. Contact here.
Damage Assessment Model	Automated Damage Assessment from Street level Images.	American Red Cross	Data and Tech. Contact here.
Building Material Classification	Building material classification from street-level imagery (Mapillary). Code available here.	Netherlands Red Cross	510. Contact here.
Migration flow prediction	Prediction of migration flow through Europe exercise. Code available here	British Red Cross	SIMS support. Contact here.
Summarization of response documents	Summarization of documents and news articles related with the response-stage of a disaster. Code available here	IFRC	Information Management. Contact here.
Ukraine Analyses	Analyses relating to how the Ukraine conflict has and could impact the UK. This includes a simulation-based approach to predicting arrivals and a housing insecurity Index. Code available here.	British Red Cross	Strategic Insight and Foresight. Contact here.
Poland property analysis	Pulled data on prices of rental properties from Polish property listing sites, to provide data on price and availability for the shelter cluster in Poland, in response to the Ukraine crisis. Github here.	IFRC Geneva	Rapid response information management. Contact here.

2. Health and Care

Project	Description	RCRC Member	Team
Community-Based Surveillance (CBS)	A platform that allows real-time detection, reporting, aggregation, and analysis of information on community health risks. Code available here	Norwegian Red Cross	CBS, Health,-. Contact here.
Health Inequalities Explorer	An open access web app to explore location based health inequalities across different UK geographies. Code available here.	British Red Cross	Strategic Insight and Foresight. Contact here.
NHS Capacity Analysis	National Health System performance for specific areas in UK. Code available here.	British Red Cross	Strategic Insight and Foresight. Contact here.
Left Behind Areas	A Shiny web app to visualise left-behind areas, which are places high in deprivation, and low in social infrastructure. Code available here.	British Red Cross	Strategic Insight and Foresight. Contact here.
Trust Discharge Criteria	Shiny app to explore patients not meeting criteria to reside in English NHS Trusts. Code available here.	British Red Cross	Strategic Insight and Foresight. Contact here.
Hb prediction	Blood donor hemoglobin predictor wrapped in a Docker container. Code available here	Finnish Red Cross	Blood Service R&D. Contact here.
Blood demand forecast	Blood demand forecast based on timeseries analysis. Code available here	Finnish Red Cross	Blood Service R&D. Contact here.
Blood donor comparison	Simple comparison of blood donors populations across countries. Code available here	Finnish Red Cross	Blood Service R&D. Contact here.

3. National Society Development

Project	Description	RCRC Member	Team
Marketing Optimization Systems	Recommendation of projects to donors to maximise possible donations.	Australian Red Cross	Data Science and Analytics. Contact here.
Churn prediction modeling	It's a predictive model that estimates the propensity the donors have to stop making donations.	Australian Red Cross	Data Science and Analytics. Contact here.
National Society Data - Python library	Pulls together data on National Societies/ countries, and processes the data into a consistent format for analysis or visualisation. Get access on Github here.	IFRC Geneva	National Society Development. Contact here.
Document Keyword Searcher	GUI application to search for keywords or key phrases in IFRC or other documents. Get access on Github here.	IFRC Geneva	National Society Development. Contact here.

4. Inclusion, Protection and Engagement

Project	Description	RCRC Member	Team
Anonymization App	Remove Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from text. Code available here.	Netherlands Red Cross	510. Contact here.
Retrieval of Disability-related content	Scrapping of National Society Annual and Operational Reports for any mentions of disability. This project sought to assess the National Society’s inclusion of disability needs in their programs. Code available here	IFRC	Social Inclusion and Protection. Contact here.
Helpful Information App	A web-app that people affected can use to lookup useful information and organizations. Code available here.	Netherlands Red Cross	510. Contact here.

5. Other

Project	Description	RCRC Member	Team
Tweets search and parse	Periodically queries Twitter for specified key words, as well as the tweets from specified users, storing the relevant results in a google sheet for later manual review. Code available here	American Red Cross	Data and Tech. Contact here
Free text assessment	Text classification/Topic modeling of open answers from primary data collection.	American Red Cross	Data and Tech. Contact here
geographr	R package for mapping UK geographies. Code available here.	British Red Cross	Strategic Insight and Foresight. Contact here
cci_nepal	Predict optimum Non-Food-Items (NFI) given households demographics. Code available here.	Nepal Red Cross Society	Nesta Collective Crisis Intelligence
cci_cameroon	Classify and cluster messages based on topic. Code available here.	Cameroon Red Cross Society	Nesta Collective Crisis Intelligence

Notes

Data science: largely regarded as a blend of various tools, mathematical models, algorithms, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques that aim to discover patterns, correlations and relationships from data. The different “categories” of data science are not definitive, nor universally agreed on, which is why we use the expression “data science” to try and avoid excluding anything. Similar initiatives to this project are the UN OCHA Catalogue Of Predictive Models In The Humanitarian Sector, the UN Global Pulse’s microsites repository, the NetHope Solutions Center Webinar Series, the products from the ITU Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management. A relevant associated academic venue is the Artificial Intelligence for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response Workshop.