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My resignation as civic lead for Open Data for the Open Government Partnership Scotland

With Scottish Government’s lack of commitment to open data, and a complete misalignment with Civic Society’s wishes, I could not continue to prop up a process that is no longer fit for purpose.

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How does the Open Data Community share experience, knowledge, best practice, examples?

Opendatascot.org

This was a session at SODU2020, the first Scottish Open Data Unconference that took place online 5th and 6th  September 2020. The event, as an unconference, was generated by the attendees – with people proposing ideas  for sessions which then

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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).

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Weeknotes – 2019 – Wk10

carpark silhouettes

Weeknotes Week 10. More rail problems, preparing for DataFest19, fixing #AirQuality with @AirAberdeen, reading Orwell, walking and photography.

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Weeknotes – 2019 – Wk8

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

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Open Data – an index of pieces authored by me

I’ve decided to index some of the pieces which I have written on Open Data since 2011. As far as I know these are the ones that haven’t vanished into the ether of the web. This should allow me to

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Weeknotes – 2019 – Wk3

I’m conscious that I shy away from writing about the day job which occupies me three days per week at the moment. I need to reconcile myself to that or speak to head office to see what level of blogging

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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
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