This newly-published book by Google’s Laszlo Bock is a must-read for anyone in HR, or indeed anybody interested in their workplace culture and how to lead and manage in their organisation. In writing this, Bock extends Google’s commendable internal commitment
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 hacks of public services. They came from local
Grampian Information Conference 2014 – Buzzword Bingo
On Thursday 6th November I’ll be giving a talk at the Grampian Information Conference. During my talk we’ll be playing a game of Buzzword Bingo. Below are two bingo cards which you can download and print. Buzzword Bingo Card 1
A Scotland-wide FOI search facility?
Updated (*) 17/1014 2 new bullet points at the end. At the first Code The City event, held in Aberdeen in June 2014, one of the projects which was worked on for the weekend was the setting up of a
Scraping Twitter data with Morph.io
At work we operate a number of Twitter Accounts, and we have been monitoring the number followers each has, on a monthly basis, for a number of years. The collection of the data – which we normally put into a
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, bloggers – all of whom turned up
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 working with Dave Morrison, the
Scraping Tools – A quick round-up
I’ve written here before about using Scraperwiki to scrape content from websites which haven’t implemented OpenData. I have even used Scraper Wiki to scrape our own website to get badly-formed content out in a structured way for a hack. Now,
Code For Europe (Scotland)
As I wrote in my previous post, Aberdeen City Council have joined Code for Europe 2014. Following the international meeting in Barcelona, and ahead of the appointment of the code fellows, the four participating Scottish councils came together in Edinburgh
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 the first meeting of code fellows