The lab
What I've built so far.
The Lab is the practical half of AndonLab: tools that actually work, not prototypes for show. There are few of them and they'll grow slowly. Each one comes from a problem I've seen up close.
01 — Public data
Radar Comune
Demography and attractiveness of Italian municipalities
It brings together data that starts out separate: ISTAT population and demographics, property values from the Italian Revenue Agency's OMI database, environmental indicators, quality-of-life rankings. Different sources, different formats, different definitions of the same thing. That's where the real work is: normalising them and making them comparable in a single base, processed upstream. What reaches the browser is a light application that queries a volume of data it never downloads — and answers immediately.
It's the same problem I met in the factory for thirty years: the data already exists, but it's scattered, in formats that don't talk to each other, and it never reaches the table where the decision is made. The domain changes, the craft doesn't.
Sources: ISTAT, income data from the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance, OMI property values from the Italian Revenue Agency, ISPRA, ARPA, Sole 24 Ore quality-of-life index. The only third-party request the tool makes is for the map tiles: without them there would be no map. Fonts, libraries and data all come from here.
Whatever works will end up here. If you have a tool in mind that would make your life easier and doesn't exist, that's exactly the kind of conversation I'm looking for.