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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

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

Review: “Work Rules – Insights from Inside Google” by Laszlo Bock

This newly-published book by Google’s Laszlo Bock is a must-read for anyone in HR, or indeed anybody interested in their workplace culture and how to lead and manage in their organisation. In writing this, Bock extends Google’s commendable internal commitment

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

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

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

First look: Mining The Social Web – Data Mining Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc

Have you ever wanted to use the APIs of the main Social Media platforms, to download and analyse data, manipulate it and combine it with other data sources? Then this excellent, updated book is for you. [AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”1449367615″] The sample