Data Expedition: Mapping the garment factories
The horrific factory collapse at Rana Plaza in Dhaka has brought the business practices of global garment brands, as well their thousands of suppliers, into the spotlight. At School of…
When A Government Minister’s Data Laundry is Hung Out to Dry…
A well targeted Freedom of Information request to the UK Department for Education and its consequent report hit the news here recently. It turns out that a claim by Minister…
Data roundup, May 15
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. TOOLS, COURSES, AND EVENTS In “the most…
The latest from the School of Data
In case you missed them, here are the latest updates from around the School of Data. New Ask and Answer Service You can now ask and answer data related questions…
Asking Questions of Data – Some Simple One-Liners
One of the great advantages of having a dataset available as data is that we can interrogate it in very direct way. In this post, we’ll see a variety of…
“Is it really worth it?” – The map of Italian journalists facing threats
A data journalism project by three Italian freelance journalists and developers shows the problem of journalists facing threats in Italy. More than 300 journalists have been facing threats in Italy…
Hunting for Data – Learning How to Read and Write Web Addresses, aka URLs
In every data explorer’s toolbox, there is likely to be a range of tools and techniques that have proven their worth again and again. For discovering data on the web,…
Unleashing the potential for urban climate data
As our data exploration on carbon data draws near to the close – a voice from the Open Sustainability Group chimes in to another angle that may be interesting to…
Data roundup, May 8
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. TOOLS, COURSES, AND EVENTS “Data is hard.…
Data Questions? ask.schoolofdata.org!
Ever got stuck in a dataproject and found no way out? Ever wondered if there is an efficient way to transform some dataset you work with? Looked for someone to…