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Open Data Masterclass – Aberdeen University 17 November 2010
Last November I attended an Open Data Masterclass at Aberdeen University. I took notes as the day progressed and these are shared below, sometimes quite skeletally, sometimes more completely. It was a...
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Open Data – some (mostly recent) bookmarks
Open Data The Open Data daily: http://paper.li/tag/opendata Birmingham City Council publishes electric vehicle charging points as open data KML with microformats: http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/evcp...
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Two new Google projects crossed my radar today – and very interesting they both are, too. The first is Google For Non-profits. It offers the chance to reach and engage supporters, raise awareness of...
View ArticleNHTG11 – a personal reflection
Yesterday I spent nine and a half hours in a room with a group of hard-core coders and not only lived to tell the tale, but thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Firstly I should say thanks to Dr Bruce...
View ArticlePLODS – but faster
The following article is an adaptation of one I wrote for my team’s internal blog at work. Today I coined an acronym. PLODS – Public Linked Open Data Sets. Anyone who does not understand why publishing...
View ArticleUse IFTTT & Readitlater to mine info from Twitter
While the following post uses #opendata as an example subject to pull information from Twitter, the methodolgy is generic. The background is that I love to know what is happening in the world of Open...
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Facts Are Sacred – a review
Facts are Sacred is the new book by Simon Rogers, the award-wining editor of guardian.co.uk/data and a news editor on the Guardian, working with the graphics team to bring figures to life on the page....
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Code for Europe comes to Aberdeen via Barcelona
Recently Aberdeen City Council has accepted an invitation (via NESTA) to join the Code for Europe movement. This post sets out some of the background to that. It covers the content and outcomes of...
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Code For Europe (Scotland)
As I wrote in my previous post, Aberdeen City Council have joined Code for Europe 2014. Code For Europe Badge Following the international meeting in Barcelona, and ahead of the appointment of the code...
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MatchTheCity Project at CodeTheCity
A quick update from Code The City. I’m working with the #MatchTheCity project team. Our aim is to provide some of the data and infrastructure to support other projects – such as #BigSociety. I’ve been...
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What next for CodeTheCity?
We kicked off CodeTheCity with our first Aberdeen event on 21st – 22nd June 2014 which really couldn’t have been better. We had some 38 volunteers – service users, service owners, coders, designers,...
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CodeTheCity 3 – A reflection
Day 1 On a sunny but cool Saturday in February, almost thirty people from as far afield as Edinburgh converged on the Meston Building at Aberdeen University to collaborate on some as-yet-undefined...
View ArticleTwo great new Google projects
Two new Google projects crossed my radar today – and very interesting they both are, too. The first is Google For Non-profits. It offers the chance to reach and engage supporters, raise awareness of...
View ArticleNHTG11 – a personal reflection
Yesterday I spent nine and a half hours in a room with a group of hard-core coders and not only lived to tell the tale, but thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Firstly I should say thanks to Dr Bruce...
View ArticlePLODS – but faster
The following article is an adaptation of one I wrote for my team’s internal blog at work. Today I coined an acronym. PLODS – Public Linked Open Data Sets. Anyone who does not understand why publishing...
View ArticleUse IFTTT & Readitlater to mine info from Twitter
While the following post uses #opendata as an example subject to pull information from Twitter, the methodolgy is generic. The background is that I love to know what is happening in the world of Open...
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Facts Are Sacred – a review
Facts are Sacred is the new book by Simon Rogers, the award-wining editor of guardian.co.uk/data and a news editor on the Guardian, working with the graphics team to bring figures to life on the page....
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Digging down into Local Data – Openly Local, Democratic Dashboard and more
Aberdeen North on Democratic Dashboard Have you seen Democratic Dashboard? You really should take a look. This site, set up by the Democratic Audit based in the LSE, has one simple aim: ” … to promote...
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