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Sam Leon

Sam is a data trainer and wrangler at Open Knowledge. He Tweets from @Noel_Mas

Posted byby Sam Leon
December 15, 2015

Forbes Philippines & BlogWatch win best story award as Data Journalism PH wraps up

At the end of November, Open Knowledge, School of Data and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) wrapped-up their six-month data journalism training for media organisations in the Philippines,…

Posted byby Sam Leon
December 15, 2015

Forbes Philippines & BlogWatch win best story award as Data Journalism PH wraps up

Posted byby Sam Leon
July 31, 2015

Launch of timber tracking dashboard for Global Witness

Open Knowledge has produced an interactive trade dashboard for anti-corruption NGO Global Witness to supplement their exposé on EU and US companies importing illegal timber from the Democratic Republic of…

Posted byby Sam Leon
May 27, 2015

Call for applications for Data Journalism Philippines 2015

The Open Knowledge Foundation in partnership with the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism is pleased to announce the launch of Data Journalism Ph 2015. Supported by the World Bank, the…

Posted byby Sam Leon
May 27, 2015

Call for applications for Data Journalism Philippines 2015

Open Knowledge in partnership with the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism is pleased to announce the launch of Data Journalism Ph 2015. Supported by the World Bank, the program will…

Posted byby Sam Leon
January 27, 2015

Digital Methods Initiative Winter School, University of Amsterdam

Last week I attended the 7th annual Winter School at Amsterdam University. Run by the Digital Methods Initiative, it took the form of a data sprint in which students joined…

Posted byby Sam Leon
November 28, 2014

Uncovering Asia and Data Journalism in the Philippines

Last weekend I went to Manila to attend Asia’s first international conference for investigative journalists, Uncovering Asia. Run by the Global Investigative Journalism Network and the Philippines Centre for Investigative…

Posted byby Sam Leon
November 17, 2014

Global Witness and Open Knowledge – Working together to investigate and campaign against corruption related to the extractives industries

Sam Leon, one of Open Knowledge’s data experts, talks about his experiences working as an School of Data Embedded Fellow at Global Witness. Global Witness are a Nobel Peace Prize…

Posted byby Sam Leon
November 14, 2014

Global Witness and Open Knowledge – Working together to investigate and campaign against corruption related to the extractives industries

Sam Leon, one of Open Knowledge’s data experts, talks about his experiences working as an School of Data Embedded Fellow at Global Witness. Global Witness are a Nobel Peace Prize…

Posted byby Sam Leon
August 20, 2014

4 Network Visualisation Tools

Network visualisation has become an important tool in the armoury of the data wrangler. An increasing volume of research and journalism is using network analysis and visualisation to gain insight…

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