Data roundup, January 16
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 Hacks and Hackers…
Join the first online data expedition: Flatland – A Romance of heavy dimensions
The inhabitants of flatland called for our help – the population of the great plain are increasingly changing the overall structure and threatening the social cooperation: they are so heavy…
Data roundup, December 14th
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. This week we want to use a…
Book Review: The Functional Art by Alberto Cairo
Ever wondered how to create stunning inforgraphics and how to show what you found in your data? Alberto Cairos “the functional art” is for you. The world of datavisualization seems…
Data roundup, December 6th
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. This week we have big news. The…
The Webpage is the API – Scraping Resources
Webscraping is one of the most powerful techniques for obtaining data – it allows you to treat nearly any website out there as data sources. Thus allowing you to create…
Data Roundup, November 28
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 Datawrapper 1.0 is…
Data Expeditions at MozFest
Expeditions into the Data Landscape: the School of Data goes to #MozFest. Find out what happened at MozFest – and see the tools and data sets to recreate it yourself!…
Data Expeditions at MozFest
Expeditions into the Data Landscape: the School of Data goes to #MozFest Find out what happened at MozFest – and see the tools and data sets to recreate it yourself!…
Data Bootcamps: Hands on data literacy workshops for the world
As governments around the world start implementing open data initiatives, establishing a critical public able to analyse and contextualise the data released is paramount. To facilitate this the African Media…