This week, I was lucky enough to accompany UK Prime Minister’s delegation to India as part of contingent of ‘hackers’ and civic-minded dataheads. We did a hack day with some of India’s leading developers and visualizers.
Check out their great, ingenious work in this post for The Guardian.
Here’s the full bus-heatmap mentioned in the piece.
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In this case, they collect data that were previously inaccessible and to present them in a coherent way that is understandable and usable.
A stack of paper with 5000 documents is pretty useless, but once I got into a database and publish them on the web from a user, this same information is now used schedules. According to dry or no data on the information previously obtained. Hacking different parts into a whole.
Well Done Arun Ganesh. I personally know it is difficult to find bus routes in Chennai. Thank you David McCandless for publishing the story.
The prime minster’s delegation??? You work for evil, man. No good.
The people like hacking in India as they leak the data fro the websites.They enjoy it as its difficult task and when they break the securities and enter the site they feel proud about them.People here also learn the things and also hack the sites.
wish they’d hack the electricity situation, daily load-shedding is a pain.
maybe a social media campaign? embarrass the government into doing something after 60 years?