Michael Bauer

School of Data Fellow Codrina and Michael spent their week hacking the Bosnian election system. This is their report back: Elections are one of the most data-driven events in contemporary…

Do you ride a bicycle or know someone who does? If you live in Copenhagen, your answer to this question is probably a resounding “yes”. Known as the most bike…

Recently our Fellow Ketty, David from Code For Africa and Michael spend a week in Tanzania. While their main task was to work with the Ministry of Water they decided…

How to Earn a Badge at the School of data This is a short screencast on how to earn a Badge at the School of Data. You can earn Badges…

Starting today the School of Data supports Open Badges to acknowledge and reward your efforts to use data effectively. Get them for learning, participating and special achievements and show what…

Exciting times are ahead at the School of Data. Currently we’re working hard behind the scenes to implement Open Badges. Badges will allow you to show (informally) what you’ve learned…

Our Data Diva Michael Bauer spent his last week in Dar Es Salaam working with the Ministry of Education, the Examination Council, and the National Bureau of Statistics on joining…

After the German elections, data visualization genius Moritz Stefaner created a map of election districts, grouping them not by geography but by election patterns. This visualisation impressively showed a still-existing…

As of Today the US Government is in Shutdown. That means that a lot of employees are sent home and services don’t work. The Washington Post Wonkblog has a good…

Recently an Austrian newspaper published the graph above. It was part of an interesting story on how people viewed the different political parties. One thing is notable: The first row…