Season’s Greetings from the Open Knowledge Foundation!
To celebrate the season our Public Domain Review project has put together a digest of festive public domain images and texts – including a selection of Christmas diary entries, a…
What happened at the first Open Knowledge Foundation France meetup?
The following post was written by OKFN France edited by Pierre Chrzanowski and translated by Peter Schiøler. It was with great excitement that we greeted 60+ participants for the…
Economics & Coordinating the Crowd
This blog post is written by Ayeh Bandeh-Ahmadi, PhD candidate at the Department of Economics, University of Maryland. This past spring, I spent a few months at the crowdfunding company…
We’re Hiring!
We’re hiring for two new roles on or working closely with the School of Data project! Love telling stories with data? Passionate about building applications to make the world a…
Prescribing Analytics: how drug data can save the NHS millions
Last week saw the launch of prescribinganalytics.com (covered in the Economist and elsewhere). At present it’s “just” a nice data visualisation of some interesting open data that show the NHS…
First Open Economics International Workshop
You can follow all the goings-on today and tomorrow through the live stream. On 17-18 December, economics and law professors, data publishers, practitioners and representatives from international institutions will gather…
Data roundup, December 14th
We’re rounding up data news from the web each week. If you have a data news tip, send it to us at schoolofdata@okfn.org. This week we want to use a…
For Australian Data Geeks, an OpenStreetMap Hackathon in Melbourne this January
Living in Australia? Local Group organisers in the region are organising an all-day hackathon on Saturday, January 5th 2013 from 10 am onwards to create an OpenStreetMap-based bicycle map of…
Why the German Digital Library should learn from Europeana
The full version of this article is available on the Open GLAM blog. Launch of the DDB. Jill Cousins, Hermann Parzinger, Elke Harjes-Ecker, Matthias Harbort (from left to right) –…
Book Review: The Functional Art by Alberto Cairo
Ever wondered how to create stunning inforgraphics and how to show what you found in your data? Alberto Cairos “the functional art” is for you. The world of datavisualization seems…