The Open Data Expo, which took place on March 7, 2024, attracted numerous interested parties, including visitors from a wide range of walks of life, including HTL school classes and a group from the AMS, which consisted exclusively of women. This diversity was reflected in the diverse conversations and discussions, which underlined the importance of […]
The 2nd Open Data Expo took place at UAS Technikum Wien on 2nd March with the slogan ” Experiencing and understanding data”. Numerous applications and projects based on publicly accessible data were presented by 14 exhibitors to around 100 visitors. The lively interest in the event, which was organized jointly with the Vienna Business Agency, […]
A project has been developed that leverages open data sources and Node-RED to create a series of dashboards. These dashboards can help individuals to find the best country to live in based on factors such as longevity, economic prosperity, and extreme weather and environmental conditions. The project utilizes a variety of open data sources to […]
This project is about cycling in Vienna and features locations of air pumps, service stations and many more. It can be accessed here: https://opendata.technikum-wien.at/airpumpsvienna/ This project has been realized by the students Cristine Iampaglia and Jana Schmidt in January 2023 as part of the course Data Ethics and Open Data at the UAS Technikum Wien. […]
Everyone wants to be happy, indeed. Even as individuals, we might not know exactly what makes us feel happy. There are factors that affect happiness which many studies and surveys have been conducted around the world. Those data are accessible as open data. In order to recognize what makes us happy, we can properly compare […]
This project’s aim is to color each of the 23 districts of Vienna with a color regarding it’s curent Air Quality Index (AQI). Unfortunately, in some districts there is no corresponding metering station to record air quality data. That’s why they are colored white. It can be accessed here: https://opendata.technikum-wien.at/airqualitymonitoring/ Note that it may take […]
This project was developed during a course on data ethics and open data at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien. Starting from a discussion about environment and economic growth, the aim of this project is to give an idea of the relationship between environmental pollution and economic growth. The main idea of this project […]
On 6th March 2020, the 1st Open Data Expo took place at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien. As part of the program, Lukas Rohatsch (UAS Technikum Wien) held a workshop on open data. Participants were able to experience existing projects, work hands on with selected open available datasets and code a small project […]
There are currently many applications showing the weather forecast as well as application showing the Citybike stations of Vienna. They have been in high demand since the very beginning, giving the information to the end-users about their services, but what if there is a way to build an application which gathers information from different so […]
This project, aims to visualize the occasions of earthquakes using the open data set provided by the ZAMG (Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik engl. Federal meteorological and geophysical service of Austria) (ZAMG). Using the open source library Leaflet, different types of maps are implemented as layers. As a number of earthquakes also happen in the […]