The Data Journalism Bootcamp at AUB Lebanon
Data love is spreading like never before. Unlike previous workshops we did in the MENA region, on the 18th of January 2015, we gave an intensive data journalism workshop at…
Instigating the Rise of Demand for Data: The #OpenData Party in Abuja
So what happens when you have 102 Nigerians representing all the six regions of the country in  Abuja to teach and learn about what they can use data or open…
Call for action: Help improve the open knowledge directory
This is a guest blog post from Open Steps, an independent blog aggregating worldwide information around Open Cultures in form of articles, videos and other resources. Its aim is to…
The World Tweets Nelson Mandela’s Death
Click here to see the interactive version of the map above Data visualization is awesome! However, it conveys its goal when it tells a story. This weekend, Mandela’s death dominated the Twitter…
Data Roundup, 3 December
A course on online mapping, new visualization software, corruption perceptions data, bushfires in Australia through interactive maps, climate change effects infographics, the top 5 tweets of November in data visualization,…
Netneutralitymap.org – converting 700Gb of data to a map.
In this post, Michael Bauer explains how he wrangled data from measurement lab in order to create this visualisation of netneutrality, which maps interference with end user internet access. Netneutrality…