Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

As a cycle campaigner I am using my programming/data/design/socialmedia skills to present information to decision in better ways.

1) https://cyclebath.org.uk/map/ This one has gone national and is up for a Creative Bath Innovation Award.

2) Using Census 2011 Data I've created a healthy cities and towns league index as well as spatial analysis on commuter behaviour. (6M people drive to work, of which 3.5M live within a 20 minute cycle ride) https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4YARJgso6IxRjd1ZlNDZklGaX...

3) Worked with Bath Hacked and Strava to deliver a year of cycling in the city of Bath strava.bathhacked.org

4) Get involved in your local tech4good meetup.

Do not start from a "hey where can I use my skills for good?". Start with "I am passionate about X, what can I do to help X in anyway?"



I'd like to get involved in this kind of thing in Melbourne, Aus. I'm already a campaigner, but hadn't thought of contributing in a technological sense! I think I'll get in contact with the others I know and offer to help out!

Cheers for the insight!


I'd look at the 2016 http://www.abs.gov.au/census data set and see if you can start playing around with some of the data sets within there.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: