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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

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

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

52 Books – February 2017 Update

Introduction I started my second 52books challenge at the start of January 2017. You can read my progress last month here (or by following the #52books tag below), So here are the books which I read in February. Books read

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

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

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

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