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Showing posts with label sensor journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sensor journalism. Show all posts
Thursday, February 27, 2014

A call for journalists and makers to join hands around IOT and evidence-based journalism

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Writing for Al Jazeera English, D. Parvaz reported on a recent conference for atomic experts organized by the International Atomic Energy...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

Understanding air pollution with a simple dust sensor

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Outdoor air pollution, in the most extreme cases, can be immediately identified even without any special training. It casts a haze over c...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

IEPA is silent on request for data, emails surrounding large tire fire

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When a supply of one million tires caught fire in Hoopeston, IL, there were no environmental monitors to track pollution in the community...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Michigan also faces cutbacks in air quality monitoring, risks violating federal requirments

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Illinois isn't the only state facing cutbacks in environmental monitoring due to state and federal budgets. In its annual plan to mo...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Witness to Hoopeston tire fire calls experience "bizarre" (photos)

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Last week, I wrote about a massive tire fire that burned in the small town of Hoopeston, Ill . In my post, I argued that citizen-based s...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

A massive, toxic tire fire, and how citizen sensor journalism could have informed a community in crisis.

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A fire at a tire disposal plant in the small town of Hoopeston, Ill., polluted the skies for hours. Photo by @JonathonLinares. At 5:30 a...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Illinois EPA looking to cut back on air monitoring

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Facing the prospect of budget cuts, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has drafted plans to reduce the number of air quality sen...
Thursday, June 6, 2013

Finding a definition and purpose for sensor journalism at the Tow Center

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#Towsense presentation on mapping mangroves by Aaron Huslage, photo by Moshin Ali (@moshin) Before I left for the Tow Center's sens...
Monday, June 3, 2013

Step-by-step guide to programming the RN-XV WiFi module for Arduino

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The Arduino prototyping standard has been around for about 6 years now, and has proven to be immensely useful for sensing devices. It'...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

DustDuino: A plan to crowdsource environmental reporting with low-cost dust sensors

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A before and after photo of Shanghai inundated with smog, by Flickr's morgennebel . There's some good news in the air. Or, well...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Columbia's Tow Center is brainstorming sensor journalism prospects in workshop

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In a little over a week, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University will be organizing experts across multiple discipli...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Making a home for a sensor node - with a laser.

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Sensor nodes need a good home if they're to last any considerable amount of time. And if they're to be deployed outdoors, they ne...
Friday, February 8, 2013

Building a Wifi Temperature Node for Journalism

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Wireless sensor nodes can help monitor conditions the community, in the next state over, or across the globe. These sensors don't hav...
Friday, January 25, 2013

Heat island effect and asthma: an argument for temperature nodes for journalists

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Meteorologists shouldn’t be the only people in the news ecosystem concerned with temperature. Extreme temperatures can exacerbate food sho...
Monday, January 21, 2013

Making a sensor node for journalism: picking components and 3D printing useful bits

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Open-source microcontrollers can be very handy for journalists: they can fly a data-gathering drone and control a data-gathering sensor...
Monday, January 14, 2013

Nodes for journalists: a primer on bringing sensor data to the reporter

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Drones are pretty cool, and could be pretty useful for journalists. They allow journalists to film hard-to-reach spots, such as partia...