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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 Four

Day dawned brightly again on day four of the innovation week. Grabbing a cup of tea and some breakfast, we settled down for the first talk of the day. This was from Neil McGuire, a Glasgow designer and lecturer of

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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

Data Lab Innovation Week – Day Two

The second day of innovation week started with two learning sessions. Anne and Keira from Snook shared some of their service design methodologies, such as solving problems that matter and using discovery and design research as part of the double

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Data Lab Innovation Lab – Day One

On a bright Monday morning, 116 MSc Data Science students from campuses all across Scotland assembled for a week of innovating with data. The location was The Whisky Bond, the ground floor of which had been given over to the

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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 hacks of public services. They came from local

ian 18 February 201510 May 2019 Aberdeen, CodeTheCity, Events, Hacking, Innovation, Open Data, Open Government, Scraping Read more

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

ian 13 October 201410 May 2019 Coding, EUCommons, Hacking, Linux, Local Government, Open Data, Programming, Python, Scraping, Uncategorized Read more

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

ian 26 June 201410 May 2019 Code4Europe, CodeTheCity, Events, Hacking, Innovation, Linked Data, Open Data, Open Government, Scraping, Uncategorized Read more

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

ian 22 June 201410 May 2019 Code4Europe, CodeTheCity, Coding, Hacking, Local Government, Open Data, Open Government, Scraping Read more

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,

ian 2 April 201410 May 2019 APIs, Hacking, Open Data, Python, Scraping Read more
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