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Weeknotes – 2019 – Wks 11 and 12

Wikimedia badges, stickers and pens

A look back at two weeks of Data Fest 19 Fringe events in Aberdeen, and how these fit with the Data Together theme. Plus an inevitable update on my reading (Orwell again).

admin 25 March 20195 May 2019 Data Science, Open Data, Open Government, Social Media, weeknotes, wikidata Read more

Weeknotes – 2019 – Wk8

Laucnhing an air quality sensor, creating slack groups, reviewing open data and reading a crime novel.

admin 25 February 20195 May 2019 Open Data, weeknotes Read more

Open Data – Index of pieces that I have written

I’ve decided to index some of the pieces which I have written on Open Data since 2011, or at least the ones which are still available. This should allow me to find, and refer to, pieces more easily when I

admin 23 February 201921 November 2019 Open Data Read more

Scraping goes off the rails

The art of scraping websites is one beset by difficulties, as I was reminded this week when re-testing a scraper that I built recently.   Railway performance As part of my participation in 100 Days of Code I’ve been working

ian 15 January 201710 May 2019 Open Data, Railways, Scraping, Uncategorized Read more

Digging down into Local Data – Openly Local, Democratic Dashboard and more

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 engagement in the electoral process by making an array

ian 5 May 201510 May 2019 Data Visualisation, Elections, Innovation, Linked Data, Local Government, Open Data, Open Government, Scraping Read more

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

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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