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Data Lab Innovation Week – Day Five

With our final day upon us, and no tuition sessions to start the day, Friday began with an even greater urgency than previous days. The format was to be straightforward: a sprint of activity to lunchtime, setting up our allocated

ian 8 June 20185 May 2019 Coding, Collaboration, Data Science, Events, Hacking, Innovation, joint working, Local Government, Open Data, Uncategorized Read more

Data Lab Innovation Week – Day Three

Our third day at the Data Lab Innovation Week, kicked off with a very interesting talk on data ethics from Dr. Alastair Morrison from the University of Glasgow’s School of Computing. We were guided by Snook session leaders in the

ian 7 June 20185 May 2019 Coding, Collaboration, Data Science, Hacking, Innovation, Linked Data, Open Data, Open Government, Scraping Read more

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

ian 8 March 201410 May 2019 APIs, Code4Europe, Coding, Collaboration, EUCommons, Hacking, Innovation, Linked Data, Local Government, Open Data, Open Government, Uncategorized Read more

UK Railways and internet connectivity

Over the last couple of years I have spent a large amount of time travelling by train; mainly between Aberdeen and Edinburgh, Stirling or Glasgow. And on each of those journeys I have experienced the same frustrating issues in trying

ian 20 November 201310 May 2019 Collaboration, Connectivity, Networks, Open Data, Railways, Wifi Read more

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. He was closely involved with

ian 6 May 201310 May 2019 Collaboration, Data Visualisation, Hacking, Open Data, Open Government Read more

Aberdeen Cultural Hackathon 4th – 5th May

Aberdeen’s newest Hackathon is all set to go ahead! Mark your diaries for 4th and 5th May. Details of how to get involved in this coding weekend with a difference are below. After several weeks of trying to agree dates

ian 8 April 201310 May 2019 aberdeen2017, Coding, Collaboration, Creativity, culture, Hacking, Innovation, Open Data Read more

PLODS – 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 open data is a

ian 6 April 201110 May 2019 Collaboration, Gov 2.0, Hacking, joint working, Linked Data, Local Government, News, Open Data, Open Government Read more

NHTG11 – 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 Scharlau of

ian 27 March 201110 May 2019 Collaboration, Hacking, Linked Data, Open Data, Open Government Read more

Two 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 campaigns, improve operations, and a mass

ian 23 March 201110 May 2019 Collaboration, Creativity, Innovation, News, Open Data, Open Government Read more

Hack The Government Day – how will I participate?

This Saturday sees events to mark the third National Hack The Government Day. It will also be marked across the UK by events such as the one being run at Aberdeen University by Dr Bruce Scharlau. I’ve committed to going

ian 21 March 201110 May 2019 Accessibility, Collaboration, Events, Hacking, Linked Data, Local Government, News, Open Data Read more

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