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Climbing the d3.js Visualisation Stack
Over the last few months, the d3.js Javascript visualisation library has seen widespread use as the powerhouse behind a wide variety of highly effective interactive data visualisations. From the...
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The Latest from the School of Data
As summer holidays are over, we are also back with the latest news from around the network. New team members Welcome to Milena and Neil who joined the School of Data project in this last month....
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Scoping a Possible Data Expedition – Big Pharma Payments to Doctors
Do we need a register of interests for medics? Picking up on an announcement earlier this week by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) about their intention to “move to end the practice of paying healthcare...
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Working With Data in the Browser Using python – coLaboratory
IPython notebooks are attracting a lot of interest in the world of data wrangling at the moment. With the pandas code library installed, you can quickly and easily get a data table loaded into the...
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Data for Social Change in South Africa
We recently kicked off our first local Code for South Africa School of Data workshops in Johannesburg and Cape Town for journalists and civil society respectively. I arrived in the vibrant Maboneng...
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Data literacy in Costa Rica
Are the audiences in Costa Rica ready to read numbers? Do they know how to efficiently use data? Those are valid questions in a context where the use of open -and big- data has gained power worldwide,...
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Data literacy is about saving lives as well
Sanitarians from Region 8 Philippines explore mobile-based data collection tool. Try to search for “Data Literacy in the Philippines” online and search results will show academic literacy, national...
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Has the open data movement reached Ecuador yet?
The first time I heard about LOTAIP was five years ago at Grupo FARO. LOTAIP is the Transparency and Access to Public Information Law in Ecuador, by its Spanish acronym. This law has been a powerful...
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Helping marginalised communities use data and technology for advocacy
By Maya Ganesh, Beatrice Martini and Dirk Slater. “You are welcome anytime, you’re not like others who come with their own bag of potatoes” It’s with these words that the chair of Women’s Network for...
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Data+Drinks : a meetup to engage the open data community in the South of Nigeria
Data is now available online, but what next? This is the throbbing question on the mind of open data stakeholders, both from the supply and demand side of it. As the the fight for transparency and...
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The 4 new essential data management tools for humanitarian work
Information on affected population were kept in logbooks at the local level. I started working on first response to national disasters in 2009, when the Typhoon Ondoy struck the Philippines. Then,...
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Making open data accessible to data science beginners
If you’re reading this, I suspect you’re already familiar with open data, data science and what it entails. But if that’s not the case, fret not, here are a few beginner courses from School of Data to...
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Data in December: Sharing Data Journalism Love in Tunisia
NRGI hosted the event #DataMuseTunisia in collaboration with Data Aurora and School of Data senior fellow Ali Rebaie on the 11th of December 2015 in beautiful Tunis where a group of CSO’s from...
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Working With Data in the Browser Using python – coLaboratory
IPython notebooks are attracting a lot of interest in the world of data wrangling at the moment. With the pandas code library installed, you can quickly and easily get a data table loaded into the...
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Data for Social Change in South Africa
We recently kicked off our first local Code for South Africa School of Data workshops in Johannesburg and Cape Town for journalists and civil society respectively. I arrived in the vibrant Maboneng...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Data literacy in Costa Rica
Are the audiences in Costa Rica ready to read numbers? Do they know how to efficiently use data? Those are valid questions in a context where the use of open -and big- data has gained power worldwide,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Data literacy is about saving lives as well
Sanitarians from Region 8 Philippines explore mobile-based data collection tool. Try to search for “Data Literacy in the Philippines” online and search results will show academic literacy, national...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Has the open data movement reached Ecuador yet?
The first time I heard about LOTAIP was five years ago at Grupo FARO. LOTAIP is the Transparency and Access to Public Information Law in Ecuador, by its Spanish acronym. This law has been a powerful...
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Helping marginalised communities use data and technology for advocacy
By Maya Ganesh, Beatrice Martini and Dirk Slater. “You are welcome anytime, you’re not like others who come with their own bag of potatoes” It’s with these words that the chair of Women’s Network for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Data+Drinks : a meetup to engage the open data community in the South of Nigeria
Data is now available online, but what next? This is the throbbing question on the mind of open data stakeholders, both from the supply and demand side of it. As the the fight for transparency and...
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