Web scraping in under 60 seconds: the magic of import.io
This post was written by Rubén Moya, School of Data fellow in Mexico, and originally posted on Escuela de Datos. Import.io is a very powerful and easy-to-use tool for data…
Code For Bandung – What, Why, and How to Work with Open Data
Last Friday the Code for Bandung, a local movement of techies and developers who are trying to create civic apps for the City of Bandung, Indonesia. The group took its inspiration…
Data 101 Knowledge Sharing with Publish What You Pay Indonesia
Starting in August the School of Data Fellow for Indonesia, Yuandra Ismiraldi working together with Publish What You Pay Indonesia organized a weekly / bi-weekly event of knowledge sharing regarding…
PizzaData : Let’s talk data over pizza !
Data-related communities in Indonesia are still very rare and can be counted on the fingers of one hand, but in November a new data community in Indonesia was born, and…
Open Data Club – Talking about data with CSOs in Indonesia
Back in September, the School of Data conducted a training for CSOs working with election data in cooperation with Perludem and supported by The Asia Foundation. The training was the…
News from our School of Data Fellows
We are back with some news about our amazing fellows from all over the world. One of our ways to keep in touch is having weekly written stand-ups in chat.…
User Experience Design – Skillshare
“User Experience Design is the process of enhancing user satisfaction and loyalty by improving usability, ease of use and pleasure provided in the the interaction between the user and the…
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…
Get better feedback from your data training events!
“What do we require to evaluate our programs? How do we show that our program is making a difference? Why is getting feedback important for data trainers? How can we…
Education Data Dive in Tanzania
We recently had a round of training in Dar es Salaam to continue growing momentum and capacity around open data in Tanzania, which is part of a bigger commitment by…