This is a guest post from Sheila Herrling, Senior Vice President for Social Innovation at the Case Foundation and member of Publish What You Fund’s U.S. Advisory Committee  I’m a big believer in transparency. And not just because it’s the …

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So Beyond the Smart City 2015 is over and it’s time to say a big thank you to everyone who gave their time, support and insights over the three days. You can check the #btsc15 hashtag for some of the …

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The European Space Agency (ESA) SENTINEL-2 project is an important development for both conventional and precision agriculture applications as its high specification imaging allows 10-20m spatial resolution and 5 day revisit frequency, providing a valuable open data resource for detailed …

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Our #EULife AppChallenge is a competition, running from 1st July 2015 to 30th September 2015 to encourage you to develop innovative new apps using European Quality of Life open data that we have published with help from Eurofound and the …

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In this short tutorial Ralph Cochrane & Philipp Rustemeier show you how to access and sign up for the UK Data Service Open Data API. We have made the European Quality of Life Survey from Eurofound (2007 & 2011) available …

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In this popular tutorial we use freely available tools to build an web app in Javascript and HTML that accesses the #EULife Open Data via the UK Data Service Open Data API and allows you to view the European Quality …

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In this tutorial Ralph Cochrane & Philip Rustemeier show you how to look at the UK Data Service Open Data API which contains the European Quality of Life Survey Open Data that you’ll need to enter the #EULife AppChallenge. Using …

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Python is a popular programming language that makes it easier to interrogate and read data. The results are similar to a “report” format so it’s popular with data scientists. It also comes pre-installed with many operating systems e.g. Mac OSX. …

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In this tutorial Philipp Rustemeier shows how to build an #EULife Python app that accesses the European Quality of Life Survey via the UK Data Service Open Data API. In later tutorials we show how to plot the results on …

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If you followed Tutorial 5  you will, by now, have a Python app that queries the UK Data Service Open Data API and followed Philipp Rustemeier creating some charts and graphs using the data. In this tutorial we cover analysing the …

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