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Guardian DataStore Visualisation Competition
A post over on the Guardian DataStore site last week announced a competition based around visualising data from the Guardian DataStore: Build stuff with our data and win a Flip Mino HD camcorder. There...
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Okay – So I Need Something New to Read. Any Suggestions?
I tweeted”randomly buying books on amazon, and it’s not making me happy… anyone got any good holiday book recommendations?” and among the replies @janetedavis suggested “Write us a quick blog on what...
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Why Blog….?
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other...
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Virtual Revolution: Google Economics
Th third episode of the OU/BBC co-produced Virtual Revolution (which may well be available on iPlayer from time to time) has just aired, and included a quick overview of how Google works – from finding...
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Who Can See Whose Conversations In-stream on Twitter?
A week or so ago, I posted a quick hack using the Google Social graph API showing how to generate a list Common Friends or Followers on Twitter, so that you could look up which folk would see, in their...
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BBC Click Radio Recording As-Live at the OU
In case you’re around the OU campus in Milton Keynes on Monday 18th July, we’re recording the final episode in our season of special episodes on openness with Gareth Mitchell and the BBC Click Radio...
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www.gov.uk – Replacing the master (dot com) of Previous Government...
By the by, I ran a search on the deprecated dwp.gov.uk website earlier today (Google took me there originally, I think, rather than to the new site reached via http://www.gov.uk/dwp): and ended up on a...
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DRIP… Letter to My MP
Dear Andrew Turner, I am writing to you today to express concern about the way in which the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill [1] is being rushed through Parliament without appropriate time...
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Open Data For Transparency – Contract Compliance?
Doing a tab sweep just now, I came across a post describing a Policy note issued on contracts and compliance with transparency principles by the Crown Commercial Service [Procurement Policy Note –...
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Tutum Cloud Becomes Docker Cloud
In several previous posts, I’ve shown how to launch docker containers in the cloud using Tutum Cloud, for example to run OpenRefine, RStudio, or Shiny apps in the cloud. Docker bought Tutum out several...
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Calling an OData Service From Python – UK Parliament Members Data Platform
Whilst having a quick play producing Slack bots and slash commands around the UK Parliament APIs, I noticed (again) that the Members data platform has an OData endpoint. OData is a data protocol for...
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Rebooting Digital Worlds…
As part of my background resource hunting for a short unit on mixed reality for a forthcoming level 1 OU course (TM111…), I’ve rebooted the Digital Worlds Uncourse blog and will be posting related...
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Simple Live Timing Data Scraper…
A couple of weeks ago, I noticed an F1 live timing site with an easy to hit endpoint… here’s the Mac commandline script I used to grab the timing info, once every five seconds or so… mkdir...
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