Please join us in Shibuya on 11/3 for a fun workshop on visualizing open data in innovative ways! E2D3 (Excel to D3.js) is a graph-sharing community enabling everyone to handle and display data. E2D3 has been hosting collaboration events with various companies and organizations. This time, we are holding a joint event with Safecast, the…
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Safecast X Shuttleworth
As some will already know the Shuttleworth Foundation has been a gracious supporter of Safecast and helped make our recent 4 year anniversary event possible. As one of their Fellows I’ve been fortunate to get to meet with and work with a brilliant collection of people from around the world working on similar openness-focused, potentially…
Development: Real-Time Interpolation
Real-Time Interpolation: A Powerful and Unique Tool – Overview and Upcoming Improvements – Introduction: What is Interpolation? Spatial interpolation is the prediction of unknown points of data based off the principle that things closer together are more alike than things further apart. This is used extensively with maps you are likely quite familiar with; for…
Safecast OS X App Now Available
Mac OS X users are in for a treat with the release of our native desktop client. Available now in the app store. Hand built with with love by Safecaster Nick Dolezal, the official Safecast app brings our extensive dataset (over 21 million datapoints!) of radiation measurements to your Mac, and provides a powerful and…
Updated Safecast Webmap!
Since the unfortunate demise of our GeoSense map platform we haven’t had recent visualization of Safecast data available to web users. Last week Safecast volunteer Nick Dolezal (mastermind behind the Safecast iOS app) tried out an experiment and it worked fantastically. I’m excited to introduce you to the most recent web map of Safecast data.…
Safecasting DC
Made possible by a grant from the MacArthur Foundation, earlier this week we were invited by the NRDC and International Medcom to come to Washington, DC and show a group of people how to build our bGeigie’s and talk a little bit about the value of citizen/independent radiation and environmental monitoring. We’ve had a number…
Safecasting Iraq: Open Data to Open Doors
Last month I was invited to facilitate some data visualization workshops at the Peace Tech camps in Erbil Iraq. One of the NGO’s I was working with was attempting to visualize a study to raise awareness about the issue of depleted uranium in Iraq. Luckily I had run into Sean Bonner moments before boarding my…
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Fukushima: The Next Three Years Symposium
Above: Everything looked great on the huge screen, including Joi Ito Skyping in from MIT to say hello. The “FUKUSHIMA: THE NEXT THREE YEARS” symposium SAFECAST organized in commemoration of the third anniversary of the start of the Fukushima disaster was held at the Komaba Research Campus of Tokyo University on March 15, 2014. We’re…
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Safecasting the IAEA
Day 1, Feb 16, 2014 Joe and I are in Vienna this week to attend an IAEA expert meeting which starts Monday. SAFECAST was invited to make a presentation about our methods and results, and I’ll be the one giving the talk, which is on Tues. afternoon, Feb. 18. Information about the meeting can be…
Fukushima across the Pacific
Let’s make it clear: the release of radioactive contamination from the Fukushima NPP to the environment — the air, the land, and the ocean — is a massive disaster. There’s no other way to describe it. Radiation in the air spread far and wide, and was even detectable, though barely, on other continents, while radiation…