Old home, cold home?
Solid vs cavity walls Modern homes tend to be built with cavity walls. These came into widespread use after the Second World War and consist of two walls about 10cm thick, with a 5 to 8 mm cavity between them. …
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Are There Just Too Many [Open Data Publishing] Cooks in the Kitchen?
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Before companies can use Open Data (defined as government data that is deliberately shared in a machine-readable format for free reuse by others), it has to earn a reputation for reliability. No company wants to use inconsistent data sets full …
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3 Next Steps to Take After Publishing Open Data
The open data movement is in transition. Over the past decade, the public sector has dramatically increased the quantity and regularity with which it publishes open data. Legislation at the federal and local levels suggests that open data is here …
Wine industry takes up government open data
Laser data from the Environment Agency is to be used to pinpoint land suitable for growing high quality grapes
Linking agriculture and nutrition to open data, open government and the Sustainable Development Goals
By: Tim Davies, Ana Brandusescu and Ben Schaap – Open Government, Agriculture and Nutrition Open Government Partnership governments spend more than $1.2 trillion a year on the agriculture sector. We all rely upon complex global supply chains of agricultural inputs …
October planning meeting
Tuesday 27th October 6.00pm – 8.00pm Spaceport X 1st Floor 24-26 Lever Street Manchester M1 1DZ This month’s Open Data Manchester will be low-key but high impact. 2016 is nearly upon us and we want to develop our programme for next …
How we made #OpenIndia
It has been a season ripe with new ideas and shifts in the open data conversation. At the Cartagena Data Festival in April, the call for a country-led data revolution was loud and clear. Later in June at the …
How to Take Advantage of Existing Linked Data Networks
programmableweb.com – There’s perhaps no hotter buzzword in our industry—and therefore no hotter hashtag—than big data. Not just big data, there’s open data versus proprietary data and then there’s Linked Data which mak… Tweeted by @BenHen75 https://twitter.com/BenHen75/status/656061804167188480
An Open Data Concession Map of the World – Part I, Sub-Saharan Africa
For the past year, OpenOil has collected oil concession data from all continents as a contribution to what we believe holds the potential to revolutionise natural resource management across the globe: an open data framework around the extractive industries. Today, …
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Africa Open Data Conference – presentations
The 2015 Africa Open Data Conference took place in Dar Es Salaam, in Tanzania, in September 2015. The presentations have been published, and a selection are previewed here: [gview file=”http://dd7.000.myftpupload.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/10/PRESIDENT-SPEECH-DURING-OPENING-OF-AFRICA-OPEN-DATA-CONFERENCE-00000002.pdf”]