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Addressing Urban Heat in Bengaluru : Data Jam
August 3, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Inviting registrations for Datajam! Registration form
This datajam is organized by OpenCity.in in collaboration with Bengaluru Climate Action Cell and WRI India, with support from ATREE, Oorvani Foundation & Citizen Matters.
At the datajam, participants collaborate to scrape, clean, use open data to analyse different aspects of climate change – risks, vulnerabilities and state of mitigations – in Bengaluru and recommend solutions.
All output/findings will be shared on OpenCity.in and CitizenMatters and available for republication under a cc license.
Who can participate:
Anyone with an interest in public problem solving is welcome. Knowledge of data analysis, visualisation, GIS and/or coding would be helpful.
Anyone with an interest in public problem solving is welcome. Knowledge of data analysis, visualisation, GIS and/or coding would be helpful.
Expectations from Participants:
Use publicly available data to analyze data related to urban heat – temperature, demographics, infrastructure – in Bengaluru. Also use existing knowledge and understanding of the city to look for challenges and suggest improvements to mitigate the challenges.
Public data is not restricted to what is available on OpenCity. You can find and use any data that is available publicly or can be made public.
Note: Data that is behind paywalls, or under Non-Disclosure Agreements cannot be used.