School of Data

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 data visualization…

The first online Data Expedition ventured to Flatland to respond to a call for help. Four Teams set out to solve a problem: An epidemic of heaviness. We’re now receiving…

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 Machine learning developers…

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 Scott Murray, author…

Our data expeditions are currently in full flight. There’s just over a week to go, so about half way through, let’s quickly recap what’s happened so far. Our four teams…

Seat reserved… for the spreadsheet. Photo by Zoonabar. CC-BY-SA 2.0 For non-techie researchers and investigators like me who work on human rights, spreadsheets are incredibly useful. However, it’s hard to imagine…

Irfan Ahmad has recently collected data on twitter users in Pakistan. He writes: Twitter has recently become very popular in Pakistan as lots of journalists, TV anchors, celebrities and politicians…

This post was written by Gregor Aisch. If I was asked for the golden rule of information visualization, it would be: “Show the most important thing first!” Not second or…

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 new open…

I’ve traditionally used python for web scraping but I’d been increasingly thinking about using Node JS given that it is based on a browser JS engine and therefore would appear…