For Chicagoans, few things are as enjoyable as a day at the beach. That joy, however, is contingent on clean waters that are free of contaminants such as E. coli bacteria. This year, Chicago is piloting an analytical model to enhance…
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: water quality
Taking Predictive Analytics to the Beach
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A Successful Camp: Open Data, Governance, Digital India and Caddisfly
DataMeet held its latest Open DataCamp in New Delhi on 22 November, 2015. The open data movement in India and the community around it, have both grown steadily in recent years and the latest event further helped the cause. Akvo…
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Climate Smart Agriculture and Open Data at COP21
Partners of the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative call for political leaders at COP21 to make the most obvious data open; “farmers need weather data in order to adapt to climate change”. Climate Change and Agriculture…
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Open data & Climate change – Agriculture trends for COP21
Partners of the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative call for political leaders at COP21 to make the most obvious data open; “farmers need weather data in order to adapt to climate change.” What is the…
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Can Open Data Help Save the Amazon?
“The bathroom’s down the hall,” Gustavo Faleiros tells me, as we speak one June afternoon in his sunny São Paulo apartment. “But there’s no running water.” Residents of his building in the middle-class neighborhood of Pompéia have agreed to alternate…
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