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
Aberdeen Culture Hack – Ach, it was good fun!
Having had a whale of a time at the Aberdeen Culture Hack (aka #ach13) last weekend it was my intention to write a full blog post, but Kevin Mitchell beat me to it. So, I’ll pick out a few highlights
Book Review Programming the Raspberry Pi: getting started with Python
Whether you are a complete new-comer to the Raspberry Pi, or someone with a bit more experience of the pocket-sized pc or of the Linux Open Source Operating System, you will find lots of valuable information in Simon Monk’s new
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
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
Adventures with a Raspberry Pi – Part 4
If you’ve read the previous parts of this article you’ll find I have set up my Raspberry Pi by formatting the SD card and installing the Raspbian OS, setting it up on my home network and assigning it a static
Adventures with a Raspberry Pi – Part 3
I wrote in my last post about how I got SSH working on my Pi allowing me to connect remotely and run command line tasks on the Raspberry Pi. The next step was to set up a means of running
Use 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 Data, but there are so
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