Tag: Datajam
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Bengaluru Air Quality Datajam – March 2025
While cities in the North like Delhi, Agra, Varanasi make the news regularly over dangerous air quality, those in the South like Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad get a relatively easy pass as their air quality looks better in comparison. However, with more vehicles plying the roads than Delhi, with regular power cuts needing operation of… Continue Reading
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Projects in 2024 That Used OpenCity.in Data
OpenCity.in has been a public data commons for more than seven years now, and currently has 825 datasets with more than 6000 datasets. We also conduct regular datajams where people from diverse backgrounds come together to analyse the data related to specific issues. The coming together of data as well as experts lends to creation… Continue Reading
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Datajam on Lakes in Bengaluru
Bengaluru is known as a city of lakes. Where once there were more than a thousand lakes, we now have under three hundred lakes, which is still unique when compared to other cities in India. These lakes played a large role in flood mitigation, as water sources and as ground water recharge sinks. Increasingly those… Continue Reading
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Datajam on Urban Heat in Chennai – September 2024
In 2024 Chennai has recorded close to 120 days of the temperature crossing 35°C. That is four of the nine months of the year so far! If the high relative humidity is also factored in, the number of days that would have “felt like” more than 35°C would be much higher. What does this mean… Continue Reading
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Addressing Urban Heat in Bengaluru Datajam – August 2024
On the 29th April 2024, Bengaluru recorded extremely 38.5°C which was the second hottest day ever recorded in the city. IMD records showed that between February and June 35°C was exceeded on 45 days, 27 of which were in April. The remaining three days of April recorded more than 34°C, so there really wasn’t a… Continue Reading
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Bengaluru Design Jam on BBMP Bye-laws – July 2024
A city is defined by how people live, and the kind of buildings in the city – houses as well as other buildings like schools, hospitals etc – play a significant role in that. Building bye-laws defined by the urban local bodies exist mainly to regulate how different structures – residences, apartments, commercial buildings, schools,… Continue Reading
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Bengaluru Water Datajam – March 2024
After a year of failed rainfall due to El Nino, Bengaluru is feeling the heat in more ways than one this summer. Stories of water shortage are common, tanker rates have been hiked across the city. Discussions and news reports on water resilience are back after many years of plentiful rainfall when flooding was the… Continue Reading
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Chennai Rains and Waterlogging Datajam – Jan 2024
In December 2023, Chennai was hit by the Severe Cyclonic Storm Michaung. Close to 500mm of rainfall was received over a period of a day in Chennai as per the IMD stations of Nungambakkam and Meenambakkam. The Northern parts of the city were worse affected, receiving more than 600mm. The city faced widespread flooding and… Continue Reading
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Bengaluru Walkability Datajam – December 2023
In 2022, Bengaluru recorded more than 3,800 road crashes which resulted in 772 deaths. 247 of those who were killed, or 32%, were pedestrians. In the eight Indian metros, more than 30% of the deaths are of pedestrians, the second largest cohort after two-wheelers. Unlike two-wheelers, cars or, say, tractors, pedestrians don’t form a unique… Continue Reading
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BBMP – Work Orders, Budgets and Processes Datajam – July 2023
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is the governing body for a large area under Bengaluru Urban district. It administers an area of 712 sq. km with a population of close to 10 million. After the last delimitation in November 2022, there are now 243 wards in BBMP, up from the earlier 198 wards. The last… Continue Reading
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Health vulnerability analysis from the OpenCity Datajam
On April 1st, 2023, the city of Bangalore was host to a “datajam” conducted by OpenCity.in at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore to analyse the data of Bengaluru constituencies. in the context of the upcoming Assembly elections. The event was largely attended by educated and urban civic minded people; many were part of civil… Continue Reading
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Bengaluru Constituencies Datajam – April 2023
Bengaluru Urban district currently has twenty eight assembly constituencies (ACs) in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. Can public data be used to analyse, rate and rank how these 28 constituencies are doing in terms of different parameters like health, public transport, education, environment, access to water, economy or civic engagement? Can such an exercise yield outcomes… Continue Reading