There have been some big grins in the Bath: Hacked community this week due to a couple of high-profile mentions of the work we’ve been doing. I thought it would be a good opportunity to summarise what we’re trying to achieve both now…
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: Bath
Smart people in a smart city
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5 days, 3 projects – An amazing week in local Open Data
It’s been an incredible week for open data projects in Bath and North East Somerset. Three amazing pieces of work shipped and we are so excited that we’ve just had to tell everyone about it. In no particular order, this…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Quality of life, Smart communities, Visualising data Tagged with: 3D, Apps, Bath, Bath Hacked, Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMDB), LIDAR, Mapbox, QGIS
Five ways that open data can improve your life (in Bath)
We thought it was high time we put together a list of useful things made by local developers, all of which are powered by open data. Read on to see our short list of free applications. And a call to…
Bath Young Rewired State Festival of Code 2015
We’re very pleased to feature this guest post from Danielle Vass, co-founder of Teach Programming another Bath based community interest company. Danielle recently supported a group of young people from the area in creating open data powered hacks for the…
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When open data sucks
Originally published on 29th Jun 2015 Nobody talks much about the pitfalls of using open data in a real life project. I’ll make a start. My first real application of open data was to supplement the education pages on my wife’s…
Posted in Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Visualising data Tagged with: admissions, API, Bath, BathMums, data, Data stories, data visualisation, education, formats, land registry, maintenance, metadata, pitfalls, Richard Speigal, schools, Webunknown
3 tips for users of our data
It’s summer and an enthusiastic hacker’s heart turns to thoughts of data. We’re all about visualisation, UI, colour schemes and creativity… “Speak to me not of rules” we cry. “It’s hacking time!” That is of course all true, but Open…
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Summers of Data, 4th July
People! It’s time for our first hack as a fully formed and funded CiC. Summers of Data is a super relaxed 1-day hack on 4th July to celebrate our new Independence. (You saw what we did there.) We have lots…
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What is a community interest company, and why have we become one?
On 18th April 2015 Bath: Hacked became a community interest company. In this post I wanted to briefly outline what that means for Bath: Hacked and what we’re hoping to achieve next. We’ve successfully achieved our two initial goals of publishing open…
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Bath accident blackspots 1996-2013
My pal Mark spent a lot of time compiling data on road traffic accidents in Bath and turned it into this mesmerising timelapse map. In not untypical developer fashion, he then plonked it on the Interweb, sent a tweet and…
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The “Golden Rules”
We have five golden rules which we think help make Bath:Hacked such a success – here they are! We are working on establishing ourselves as a Social Enterprise. As we’ve been going through this process and over the last 18…
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