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Social Impacts of Transformations — Innovation Summit 2025 (Group 14)

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Wide banner of the study system Raw photo location: hero.jpg

One sentence on impact: In 3 days, we explore how communities navigate transformative environmental change, producing actionable visuals, a concise brief, and shareable code for partners.

Project brief (PDF) · View shared code · Explore data

About this site: This is a public, in-progress record of the Social Impacts of Transformations team at the 2025 Innovation Summit. Edit everything here in your browser: open a file → pencil icon → Commit changes.

How to use this page (for the team)

  • Edit this file: docs/index.md → ✎ → change text → Commit changes.
  • Add images: upload to docs/assets/ and reference like assets/your_file.png.
  • Keep text short and visuals first. Think “slide captions,” not essays.

Day 1 — Define & Explore

Focus: questions, hypotheses, context; add at least one visual (photo of whiteboard/notes).

Our product 📣

  • We would like to create a publication to support our grant and funding goals. We would also like to create a public resource or tool to communicate fire resilience strategies.

Our question(s) 📣

  • What are we trying to understand or change? We would like to improve people's understanding of how to balance individual vs communal risk around wildfires. Collective assessment of risk. Mitigation post fire events.
  • Why now? Why here? Gap in understanding of the built environments impact on fire events and mitigation. Colorado and California has a large population in the woowee, wild urban interface. Population shift and people migration pre- and post-pandemic. Many different stakeholders, both public and private. Complimentary studies between defencible space and socioeconomic factors. This case study compliments existing work.
  • Who benefits if we succeed? Our goal is to make the deliverable as a case study that helps the communities at risk. Use the information in this study to benefit the community that we are studying. Help the community make better decisions.

Hypotheses / intentions [Optional: probably not relevant if you are creating an educational tool]

  • We think that
  • We intend to test whether …
  • We will know we’re onto something if …

Why this matters (the “upshot”) 📣

Explain who is impacted and how this could change decisions or understanding. The communities that are impacted are those in California and Colorado specifically those that have been affected by a fire events within the past 2 decades. How does individual risk relate to community risk and how is risk impacted by those within the community in relation to each other. Are/which socioeconomic factors correlated to any trends seen in individual vs communal risk mitagation.

Inspirations (papers, datasets, tools)

Field notes / visuals

Whiteboard brainstorm (replace this) Raw photo location: day1_whiteboard.jpg Caption: What this shows and why it’s useful today.

Different perspectives: Briefly capture disagreements or alternate framings. These can unlock innovation.

Day 2 — Data & Methods

Focus: what we’re testing and building; show a first visual (plot/map/screenshot/GIF).

Data sources we’re exploring 📣

  • Source A

Pattern revealed during exploration Raw photo location: explore_data_plot.png Snapshot showing initial data patterns.

  • Source B — link and 1-line description

Methods / technologies we’re testing 📣

  • Approach 1 (e.g., time-series break detection)
  • Approach 2 (e.g., random forest on features)
  • Visualization (e.g., map tiles, small multiples)

Challenges identified

  • Data gaps / quality issues
  • Method limitations / compute constraints
  • Open questions we need to decide on

Visuals

Static figure

Early pattern we’re seeing Raw photo location: figure1.png Figure 1. One line on what this suggests.

Animated change (GIF)

Seasonal/temporal change animation Raw photo location: change.gif Figure 2. One line on what changes across time.

Interactive map (iframe)

Open full map

If an embed doesn’t load, put the normal link directly under it.

Final Share Out — Insights & Sharing

Focus: synthesis; highlight 2–3 visuals that tell the story; keep text crisp. Practice a 2-minute walkthrough of the homepage 📣: Why → Questions → Data/Methods → Findings → Next.

Team photo at start of Day 3 Raw photo location: team_photo.jpg

Findings at a glance 📣

  • Headline 1 — what, where, how much
  • Headline 2 — change/trend/contrast
  • Headline 3 — implication for practice or policy

Visuals that tell the story 📣

Lead conclusion visual placeholder Raw photo location: fire_hull.png Visual 1. Swap in the primary graphic that clearly communicates your core takeaway.

Supporting panels for key insights Raw photo location: hull_panels.png Visual 2. Use a complementary panel, collage, or set of snapshots that reinforces supporting evidence.

Complementary result figure placeholder Raw photo location: main_result.png Visual 3. Highlight an additional visual that captures a secondary insight or next step.

What’s next? 📣

  • Immediate follow-ups
  • What we would do with one more week/month
  • Who should see this next
Project brief PDF
Read the brief 		View shared code
View code 		Explore data
Explore data

Team

Name Role Contact GitHub
Jane Doe Lead jane.doe@example.org @janedoe
John Smith Analyst john.smith@example.org @jsmith

Storage

Code Keep shared scripts, notebooks, and utilities in the code/ directory. Document how to run them in a README or within the files so teammates and visitors can reproduce your workflow.

Documentation Use the docs/ folder to publish project updates on this site. Longer internal notes can live in documentation/; summarize key takeaways here so the public story stays current.

Cite & reuse

If you use these materials, please cite:

Lastname, A., Lastname, B. (2025). Project title. DOI or URL.

License: CC-BY-4.0 unless noted. See dataset licenses on the Data page.