"DIY City: An Operating System for C
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DIYcity.org builds live city services by aggregating open government feeds, Twitter, SMS and cheap sensors into one data ecosystem. Examples include a real-time disease tracker that counts sickness mentions on Twitter (it tracked well for a month until swine flu spiked conversation without matching cases and drew New York Department of Health interest), a DIY traffic parser that ingests Yahoo feeds and tweets, and DIY bus tracking using smartphone pingers as a low-cost alternative to the city’s $14M failed attempts.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00The history of city systems
- 1:39Data-driven urban potential
- 3:33DIY city projects in action
- 7:19A vision for decentralized life
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