Watching the Watchmen – explorations of the NSA network.
Recently, we launched our started our first round of mentor training at the School of Data. During this, we’ll bring a group of volunteers up to shape to teach and…
An Introduction to Cargo-Culting D3 Visualizations
D3 is a fantastic framework for visualization – besides its beautiful outputs, the framework itself is elegantly designed. However, its elegance and combination of several technologies (javascript + svg +…
Exploring IATI funders in Kenya, Part II – cleaning & visualizing the data
Welcome back to a brief exploration of who funds whom in Kenya based on freely available data from IATI (International Aid Transparency Initiative). In the last post, we extracted data…
Exploring IATI funders in Kenya, part I – getting the data
The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) collects data from donor organizations on various projects done within countries. Who donors fund is often an interesting question to ask. I will try…
Scraping PDFs with Python and the scraperwiki module
While for simple single or double-page tables tabula is a viable option – if you have PDFs with tables over multiple pages you’ll soon grow old marking them. This is…
Kenya: land of the dangerous secret
Our data diva Michael recently traveled to Kenya to explore development aid and more. Here’s his report back. The Kiswahili word for government – serikali, is (so is said) derived…
Hola Escuela de Datos!
Today, we’re pleased to announce the launch of School of Data in Spanish! The Website will launch at the AbreLatam with a workshop focusing on building the Latin American network.…
Join the School of Data as a Community Mentor!
School of Data is currently reworking the concept of community mentorship. The link to the community mentor signup form in the post below has been disabled, pending presentation of the…
School of Data Latin America Tour
Do you live in Latin America? Hungry for some School of Data materials in Spanish? We have some good news for you: The School of Data is going to come…
School of Data last month: Prague, Barcelona and Accra
This week Michael Bauer has been traveling to give workshops in Prague, Barcelona and Accra. Training Data Skills with Civil Society Organizations and Journalists. He reports: With the coming of…