your local open data project

Leigh Dodds, 10th February 2016
@BathHacked @ldodds

http://bit.ly/bh-environment

What are we going to build?

Things we'd like to see...

Web applications

Mobile applications

Stories and visualisations

Art works

Infographics

Data collection tools

...but anything really, its up to you!

What can we make?

Who is going to use it?And where/when?

What help do you need?Can we help each other?

What problem is it solving? Or, what story is it telling?

How would you take it forward?Can we identify some great ideas to build on for future projects

How can you share what you make?

Ideas Night: Green Spaces

Help residents and visitors find green spaces

Encouraging innovative uses

Exploring ways to make parks and green spaces more interesting and engaging

Mapping local habitats and wildlife

Communicate and encourage discussion around development plans

Ideas Night: Food

Helping volunteer groups advertise for and find help

Helping groups identify who owns and maintains local green spaces

Identifying where and when to buy locally produced food

There's no single resource collecting together food related activity in the area

Ideas Night: Energy

Making business and residents more aware of their energy usage & options to improve

Analysing where to put new electric charging points?

Providing simple dashboard or actionable advice to schools to improve energy usage

Educating pupils about energy data

What data do we have?

What data do we have?

Our existing sets of environmental dataAir quality, population, energy usage, flood risks, weather, ...

New: Geographical data collectionMapping layers describing much of the local area

Green spaces, allotments, farms, bins, conservation areas...

https://github.com/BathHacked/banes-geographic-data

Energy usage data2 years worth of half-hourly energy usage in public sector buildings

Sample of how schools data will look

Environmental Protection?

LIDAR Point Cloud Sample

Some logistics

Agenda

Saturday

9am introductions & networking

10am hacking starts

1pm lunch

5.30pm register your demo

6pm pub?

Sunday

9am hacking resumes

4.30pm presentations

5.30pm judging

6pm announcements

Prizes

12 VIP tickets to Bath Rugby on 18th March

2 weekend camping tickets for Womad Festival

4 vouchers for developme.training courses

1 ticket for Smashing Conference 15-16th March

CartoDB premium accounts

...and our undying gratitude :)

CartoDB

Providing us with startup grantWould like to support us, showcase what we make

In return providing premium accounts, infrastructure

Sign up here: http://bit.ly/bh-carto

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