The document summarizes an upcoming local open data hackathon event focused on building applications and visualizations around environmental and sustainability themes using available open data from the local area. The event will take place over a weekend and provide networking opportunities, mentoring on available data and tools, and prizes for the top demonstrations on the last day. Attendees are encouraged to propose projects around green spaces, food, and energy that solve problems or tell stories using the data.

1. your local open data project
Leigh Dodds, 10th February 2016
@BathHacked @ldodds

2. http://bit.ly/bh-environment

4. What are we going to build?

5. Things we'd like to see...
● Web applications
● Mobile applications
● Stories and visualisations
● Art works
● Infographics
● Data collection tools
● ...but anything really, its up to you!

6. What can we make?
● Who is going to use it?
– And where/when?
● What help do you need?
– Can we help each other?
● What problem is it solving?
– Or, what story is it telling?
● How would you take it forward?
– Can we identify some great ideas to build on for future projects
● How can you share what you make?

8. Ideas Night: Green Spaces
● Help residents and visitors find green spaces
● Encouraging innovative uses
● Exploring ways to make parks and green
spaces more interesting and engaging
● Mapping local habitats and wildlife
● Communicate and encourage discussion
around development plans

10. Ideas Night: Food
● Helping volunteer groups advertise for and
find help
● Helping groups identify who owns and
maintains local green spaces
● Identifying where and when to buy locally
produced food
● There's no single resource collecting together
food related activity in the area

12. Ideas Night: Energy
● Making business and residents more aware of
their energy usage & options to improve
● Analysing where to put new electric charging
points?
● Providing simple dashboard or actionable
advice to schools to improve energy usage
● Educating pupils about energy data

13. What data do we have?

14. What data do we have?
● Our existing sets of environmental data
– Air quality, population, energy usage, flood risks, weather, ...
● New: Geographical data collection
– Mapping layers describing much of the local area
– Green spaces, allotments, farms, bins, conservation areas...
– https://github.com/BathHacked/banes-geographic-data
● Energy usage data
– 2 years worth of half-hourly energy usage in public sector buildings
– Sample of how schools data will look
● Environmental Protection?
● LIDAR Point Cloud Sample

15. Some logistics

16. Agenda
● Saturday
● 9am introductions &
networking
● 10am hacking starts
● 1pm lunch
● 5.30pm register your
demo
● 6pm pub?
● Sunday
● 9am hacking
resumes
● 4.30pm
presentations
● 5.30pm judging
● 6pm announcements

17. Prizes
● 12 VIP tickets to Bath Rugby on 18th March
● 2 weekend camping tickets for Womad Festival
● 4 vouchers for developme.training courses
● 1 ticket for Smashing Conference 15-16th
March
● CartoDB premium accounts
● ...and our undying gratitude :)

18. CartoDB
● Providing us with startup grant
– Would like to support us, showcase what we make
– In return providing premium accounts,
infrastructure
● Sign up here: http://bit.ly/bh-carto