by urbandata | Jan 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Urban Data Challenge: Zürich | San Francisco | Geneva ran from February 6th through March 31, 2013 with events in San Francisco, Geneva and Zurich. What’s the heartbeat of your city? Does data make your pulse race? Buses, trams, bicycles, pedestrians, and cars zoom about modern cities like blood pulsing through the body. But with urban growth comes challenges—one of them is how to improve transportation. Luckily, advances in technology combined with active open data and open source movements mean the citizenry can increasingly become part of the solution. Unclog the arteries, stimulate circulation. The Urban Data Challenge seeks to harvest the innovative and creative power of communities around the world to explore urban data sets through visualization. Designers, programmers, data scientists, and artists alike are invited to take up the challenge: merge and compare mobility data sets from three cities—San Francisco, Geneva, and Zurich—and draw meaningful insights. Winning projects will showcase the power of open governmental data and facilitate the knowledge exchange between cities. Juried prizes include round-trip airfare to one of the participating cities and funding from Fusepool, the European / Swiss Datapool, for developing the project into an app. WINNERS Grand Prize Dots on the Bus Second Prizes Transit Quality + Equity Frustration Index Third Prizes A City’s Heartbeat TransitVis Urban Bus Races Honorable Mentions Breakpoints Buzz Stop MetroMapperSF One Map, One Week in Public Transit Reliable + Pleasant Transit Transit Patterns Urban Data Response JURY The decisions of the Jury shall be final and conclusive in all circumstances and no correspondence will be entered into. Sylvie Reinhard | Lift Conference Antoine Stroh | Transports Publics...
