As part of Our Streets Chorlton, Open Data Manchester has installed a number of Telraam traffic counters in different locations around Chorlton and Chorlton Park. Telraams contain small cameras that are connected to a Raspberry Pi microcomputer, and they are able to count cars, heavy vehicles such as lorries, bikes and pedestrians. Since around March
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At ODM, we’re very interested in understanding how best to help people get control of their data – and since 2014 – we’ve been exploring the century-old idea of a cooperative, rebooted for the 21st century, in the form of data cooperatives. In April 2021, we hosted an event called How to Build a Data
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As part of Our Streets Chorlton, Open Data Manchester creates monthly bulletins that showcase some of the data being collected for the project, including the work done directly by community volunteers. Some highlights from July’s data bulletin show that: The total number of cars recorded on Darley Avenue in July was 26,229, which is down
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You may have seen that ODM has been on the hunt for new team members to support the development of a new data standard and public information portal for plastic packaging – discussed in our project launch here – and we’re glad to say we’ve found them! Clara Parada is leading on the ‘people part’
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Open Data Manchester is delighted to have teamed up with fellow local social venture, and waste-data experts, Dsposal for a new Innovate UK R&D project created to help tackle the UK’s million-tonne plastic-waste problem. Led by OPRL, which runs the UK’s most widely recognised recycling label scheme for packaging, the new consortium has won £150,000
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ODM was delighted to be joined by three incredible psychogeographers for our Open:Data:Night on 27 July, where we explored different ways of experiencing place outside the quanitifed realm of indices, heat maps and formal geographies. First up was Markus Hetheier, who is an electronic music producer, sound artist and researcher – he took us through his
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The voices of marginalised people are seldom represented within technical applications. Mapping systems for planning the built environment aren’t always inclusive of their lived experiences. Bias is baked into how data is collected and structured. These are completely preventable design issues that negatively impact people in our communities. To address these inequities, and the limitations
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As part of Our Streets Chorlton, Open Data Manchester creates monthly bulletins that showcase some of the data being collected for the project, including the work done directly by community volunteers. Some highlights from the June bulletin include: The total number of cars recorded on Darley Avenue in June was 28,048, which is down 56% from last month
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As part of Our Streets Chorlton, Open Data Manchester is creating a monthly environmental data bulletin that showcases some of the local data being collected for the project, including the work done directly by community volunteers. For the first bulletin, we’ve picked out some of key data points that we think may be relevant and interesting
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We’re growing here at Open Data Manchester – and that means three brand-new opportunities to join our team – particularly if you have an understanding of ethical use of data, data rights, representation through data and the application of automated decision-making. Business analyst (two roles) – to lead on the development of a data standard for