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Data roundup, March 13

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 The 21st Malofiej…

    Tony Hirst joins the School of Data

    We’d like to extend a really warm welcome to Tony Hirst, who’s joining the School of Data as a Data Storyteller. Tony will be working part time for the School…

      Data roundup, March 6

      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 There were many…

        Online Data Expeditions: A Wrapup

        A special thank you to all of those who took part in the first round of experimental online data expeditions. An even bigger thank you to those who took part…

          Data roundup, February 27

          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 This Saturday was…

            Data Expeditions on Open Data Day

            This post was written on Open Data Day, Saturday 23rd February about the latest data expeditions from the School of Data team in Amsterdam and Berlin. Open Data Day in…

              Data roundup, February 20

              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 A major update…

                Geocoding Part I: Introduction to Geocoding

                Geocoding is the conversion of a human-readable location name into a numeric (or other machine-processable) location such as a longitude and latitude. For example: London => [geocoding] => {latitude: -0.81,…
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