Heather Leson
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Heather Leson

Heather is Community Engagement Director at the Open Knowledge Foundation, based in Toronto. She's passionate about global storytelling, citizen voices, excellent software, crisismapping, collaboration, localization and open everything. Learn more at @heatherleson or textontechs.com

How to: Choropleth Maps with D3

[Guest Cross-post from Jonathon Morgan of Crisis.net. CrisisNET finds, formats and exposes crisis data in a simple, intuitive structure that’s accessible anywhere. Now developers, journalists and analysts can skip the…

    Video: Be a School of Data Fellow

    We know you have questions about the School of Data Fellowship. Milena Marin, Programme Manager, and I held a community session today. Some of the topics this 30 minute video…

      Greek Data Expedition and Data Journalism

      [Guest post by Charalampos Bratsas, School of Data, Greece. See more details on the School of Data Greece blog..] The Open Knowledge Foundation of Greece “OKF Greece” in collaboration with…

        Telling Stories with Humanitarian Data

        [Guest post by Andrej Verity, Disaster Responder and Information Management Officer for UN-OCHA. Originally posted on VerityThink] Last summer I had the fortunate pleasure to work with Annie Waldman for…

          Community Session: Open Data Hong Kong

          Open Data Hong Kong is an open, participative, and volunteer-run group of Hong Kong citizens who support Open Data. Join Mart van de Ven, Open Knowledge Ambassador for Hong Kong,…

            Take a CKAN Tour

            From baby name datasets and apps via the South Australian government to new City of Surrey, B.C., (Canada) site, there are many instances of CKAN around the world. CKAN is…
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