We’ve added a new FAQ page about Openness and Data Access SAFECAST tries to set an example of openness in how we gather and present our data, and try to demonstrate what the wider benefits of easy access to open data are for society as a whole. It’s not just a matter of principle, but…
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Today SAFECAST got our Christmas present, a data upload which pushed our database over 25 million data points! It took us about 5 months to go from 15 million in Feb of this year to 20 million in July, and another 5 months to reach 25 million. That’s a rate of about a million data…
It is known that much of the radiation from the Fukushima incident — about 80% — went into the ocean, and while this would appear to be good for land dwellers, what is not known for certain is how much of that radiation is making its way into the food chain. Seaweed, which is consumed…
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Safecast participated in the Kobe IT Festival 2014, which was held on November 28 and 29 at the Design and Creative Center Kobe (KIITO). With the support and cooperation of Eyes, Japan Co., Ltd., Safecast held a two-day workshop: on the first day attendees built their own bGeigie Nano, and on the second they learned…
[:en]Above: Workshop participants building their Nanos at Av-Lab in Strasbourg. SAFECAST had another first this past weekend: simultaneous bGeigie Nano workshops on opposite sides of the world. Specifically, on Saturday Oct. 25, teams of people were building Nanos in both Taiwan and France. In Taipei, the workshop was held at FabCafe Taipei, in Huashan Creative…
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Come spend an evening with SAFECAST! As many who have been following Safecast know, our funding has come primarily from crowdfunding efforts like Kickstarter and GlobalGiving, and occasional grants from philanthropies such as the Knight Foundation. This is in addition, of course, to the many people who have contributed their invaluable time and knowledge. We…
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Above: The Safecast Mac OSX app app map zoomed into the Fukushima Daiichi area after the most recent upload of data from inside the plant boundaries. The OSX and iOS maps allow the color scale to be adjusted to more easily differentiate either very high or very low dose rates. Back in December 2013 we…
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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…
We’ve been thinking about what describes the Safecast project as a whole, and came up with a list of 10 things that we try to incorporate into all of our efforts. This is something like our code of conduct, what are we doing, what should we be doing. We try to check ourselves against this…
A few days ago, Safecast reached another milestone: 20 million data points! If you look at the graph above, you’ll see that, starting from zero, it took us 7 months to collect the first million data points. Our first GPS-tagged data collection efforts in mid April 2011 used an Inspector/iPhone combo. By April 23 the first…