Enigma: “Today we are launching Smoke Signals, an open source civic analytics tool that helps local communities determine which city blocks are at the highest risk of not having a smoke alarm. 25,000 people are killed or injured in 1…
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Smoke Signals: Open data & analytics for preventing fire deaths
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The Smart Map Using Open Data to Prevent Fire Tragedies
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The single most important tool for preventing fire deaths, unsurprisingly, is a smoke alarm, but an estimated 4.5 million of the 130 million housing units across the United States do not have one. Enigma, a New York based startup, is…
Tagged with: Census, Enigma, fire, fire prevention, housing, KARI PAUL, mapping, Motherboard, open data, search engine, smoke alarm, smoke alarms, Smoke Signal
The Smart Map Using Open Data to Prevent Fire Tragedies
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Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Visualising data
The single most important tool for preventing fire deaths, unsurprisingly, is a smoke alarm, but an estimated 4.5 million of the 130 million housing units across the United States do not have one. Eni…
Tagged with: Enigma, fire, KARI PAUL, Motherboard, New york, open data, prediction, search engine, smoke alarm
Smoke Signals: Open data & analytics for preventing fire deaths
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Share Today we are launching Smoke Signals, an open source civic analytics tool that helps local communities determine which city blocks are at the highest risk of not having a smoke alarm. 25,000 people are killed or injured in 1…
Tagged with: Datakind, Enigma.io, fire, Red Cross, risk, smoke, smoke alarm, smoke alarms, smoke detectors, Smoke Signals
Open Data and Public Safety
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Share As people who are really passionate about data, we are constantly thinking about ways to use it to make the world a better place. Every 2 hours and 42 minutes a civilian death from fire occurs, according to the…
Tagged with: buildings, deaths, disaster, fire, open data, public safety, risk, science, smoke alarms
Playing with Fire…incidents data. An open data experiment
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Following the Blue light camp earlier this month, I’ve been playing with some interesting data on incidents attended by West Midlands Fire Service. The raw data comprises a list of almost 82,000 incidents attended between 2011/12 and 2013/14, with fascinating…
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