Category: Analysis
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What data says about BMTC’s performance
BMTC has put out its operational performance and other data in its annual reports till the year 2019-20. This is just short of the pandemic, so the data doesn’t reflect what the pandemic did to BMTC, where many of the buses were grounded for months. You can find the data summarized here. Lack of growth… Continue Reading
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What does Bengaluru’s traffic violations data say?
In June 2019, the Government of India raised the penalties for traffic violations. This was a move that was considered to be pending, and was expected to make our roads a lot safer. Surely, steeper fines would make people think a few more times before they jump that red signal? Three years on, we have… Continue Reading
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Bangalore Floods – A Call for Open Data
A few days of rains in the first week of September and India’s IT capital, Bangalore, got the attention of the international media. The Wall Street Journal headline read – India’s Silicon Valley Flooded by Rains, Exposing Infrastructure Woes. BBC was more dramatic – Boats and tractors replace cars in India’s Silicon Valley. A week… Continue Reading
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What does the rainfall data from KSNDMC say about Bengaluru rainfall patterns?
The Karnataka State Natural Disaster Management Centre (KSNDMC) has deployed a large network of Automated Weather Stations(AWSes) across the state as well as in Bengaluru. There is a total of 180 AWSes deployed in different parts of Bengaluru Urban and 17 across Bengaluru Rural district. Given this extensive network, the observations could help shed more… Continue Reading
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What does the NCRB traffic accidents data say?
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) published its report for the year 2021. This report includes– Crime statistics across India– Accidents statistics across India. This includes road accidents, railway accidents and railway crossing accidents. – Suicide statistics across India. This includes information about change in rate of suicides in the population over the years, means… Continue Reading
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Making Sense of Data behind data
” MetaData absolutely tells you everything about somebody’s life. If you have enough metadata you don’t really need content…[It’s] sort of embarrassing how predictable we are as human beings.” – Stewart Baker As David Weinberger said “To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata”. Metadata contain information needed to understand and effectively use the… Continue Reading
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Ideas from diverse lenses: Facilitating an ideation workshop for OpenCity
“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it’s the only one we have .” — Émile Chartier Just like in many areas of life, this famous quote by French philosopher Émile Chartier holds a lot of truth when it comes to the design and development of technology. While ideas are the life-breath of any… Continue Reading
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Open City: Asking the right questions
As part of the Tech4Dev cohort, in March 2020, we kickstarted the re-design of Open City, a city level data repository hosted and developed by Oorvani Foundation and Data Meet. The purpose of the redesign was to make the platform more accessible and user friendly. It was exciting to start this because it let us… Continue Reading
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WHEN COOKIES TELL STORIES: insights for opencity from google analytics
Three months ago, Oorvani Foundation and CivicDataLab embarked on a collaborative journey to redesign OpenCity, an urban data portal visited by over 50,000 unique users every month. We set out to learn about our users, their experiences on the platform and their dreams for the future of this city based open data hub. An important… Continue Reading
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Redesigning a city-level data platform
In the age of urbanisation that’s seeing cities grow at a fast pace. Meaning larger, more diverse problems in urban planning. In such challenging times, an open data platform that captures and gives access to quality city data would help drive better citizen-led governance and arrive at collaborative ways to address the rising urban challenges.… Continue Reading
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DataKind-Sprint 2018 : DataDive – October 13th
DataKind BLR is organising the second ‘Datajam’ on 19th August, as part of the Sprint Event. Continue Reading
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DataKind-Sprint 2018 : DataJam III – September 23rd
DataKind BLR is organising the second ‘Datajam’ on 19th August, as part of the Sprint Event. Continue Reading