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World Data Viz Challenge 2018 Barcelona-Kobe. Public event of the presentations of the finalists’ visualizations
In the framework of the smart city Expo World Congress 2018, yesterday, on November the 14th, took place the public event of presentation of the finalists’ visualizations of the World Data Viz Challenge 2018 Barcelona-Kobe.
More than 70 people, including representatives of the local administration and Kobe City Council, the authors of the finalist works, members of the jury and other interested public, attended this event. The event was inaugurated and conducted by Mª Mercè Fígols, responsible for the Open Data BCN service, open data service of the Barcelona City Council and, on behalf of the Kobe City Council, Mr. Taisuke Matsuzaki, Director of ICT Development.
The 24 final visualizations of this challenge that was carried out in parallel in Barcelona and Kobe were classified into 4 large groups: Mobility, Incidents, Public Space and Social Portrait to facilitate their authors’ speeches.
We saw that Barcelona and Kobe, in addition to celebrating on this occasion the 25th anniversary of their twinning, share concerns and problems. The explanations, the answers and the solutions in the knowledge and initiative of the citizens and the data consist of the consistent, among other repositories, are important to help carry it out.
Thanks to all, participants and assistants, to make this event a success!
The Green City Hackathon, an expert analysis of the network of bicycle lanes in the city of Barcelona
In the framework of the BigSurvey18 conference, the Green City Hackathon brings together about 25 experts from 11 different countries, specialists in data analysis, statistics, researchers and professors among others ... to analyze and make proposals about the bicycle network of the city of Barcelona from the data published in the Open Data BCN Portal.
The participants were made up of 6 teams, who worked the data with digital tools such as R and Phyton throughout the afternoon of 24/10 and mid-morning of 25/10.
The initial questions started from the fact of wanting to know more about how residents use bicycles, who and when they use them, what neighborhood accounts most of the trips by bicycle, where infrastructure is lacking, where the accidents are concentrated or if there are enough stands for bicycles. Finally the exposed works, all of a great level, have shown all this and much more.
The jury, made up of experts from Barcelona City Council and the sector, has proclaimed winner the work done by Team 6 and called: ”Barcelona. Bike use and accident overview”.
Congratulations to the winners and all the participants!
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Third training session on infographics to the teachers of the Second Edition of the Barcelona Dades Obertes Challenge
This Wedenesday, January 16th 2019 and again in the Cibernàrium, the very interesting and participatory infographics workshop was held by Dr. Henry Naranjo Pérez, professor of the Faculty of business and communication at the University of Vic and who also conducts training in the Diputació de Barcelona. It is the third and last training session for teachers enrolled in the Specific Training Plan on open data of the Barcelona Dades Obertes Challenge.
The teachers nos have all the necessary tolls to work in the classroom the data they hace chosen from the Open Data BCN Portal. Even so they continue to have suport from specialists, who can do all the consultations they need to get the necessary knowledge they mus transmit to their students.
The session was also used to explain the organization of the final event, a moment that we are all waiting for bevcause we will be able to see the defense of the 10 major Works scored and we are sure that, as in the previous edition, we will surprise.
Second training session on data processing and the Instamaps platform for the teachers of the Barcelona Dades Obertes Challenge
On Wednesday, November 28th 2018, took place at the Cibernàrium the second training session for the teachers who enrolled in the Specific Training Plan on open data of the Barcelona Dades Obertes Challenge, which aims to introduce as a resource the data open to the students of educational centres of the city of Barcelona.
In the first part of the session, the trainers explained notions on how to work with the datasets published in the portal to then be able to visualize the data on a platform for displaying data on maps, in this case, Instamaps.
A detailed explanation of this platform: interface, functionality, objectives... has allowed teachers to make their first visualizations.
Now it will be up to them to explain it to their students. We wish you good luck in this task!