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 …

Tutorial 6: Part II : Charting #EULife with Python Read more »

Share A photo is uploaded to Instagram. Millions of gallons of water course through pipes deep below the street. A plane meanders across the early morning sky. Data can be found everywhere in the world, this isn’t the challenge. The …

Enigma Raises $28.2 Million in Series B Funding Read more »

To take advantage of the next chapter in open data and data-driven strategy, numerous localities unveiled plans on June 9 to test out a new kind of data platform — one that leverages both open and internal data similar to …

Can Cities Process Data Like a Utility Service? Read more »

Libraries can evoke tired assumptions. It could be a stack of battered books and yesteryear movies; that odd odor of wilted pages and circa-1970s decor; or it could be a bout of stereotypes, like obsolete encyclopedias and ruler-snapping librarians. Whatever …

Data Reinvents Libraries for the 21st Century Read more »

Open data only works when it’s accessible, so which data platform do you choose? Having had some success getting our local council to open up some data and help us organise our first event for Bath: Hacked, it quickly became …

We made a city data store Read more »

We will keep developing the theme of taking #OpenData the “Last Mile”, meaning to users and researchers who otherwise wouldn’t know how to access or use it. The Sunlight Foundation is doing a great job of going the Last Mile …

Sunlight Foundation – Taking Open Data the Last Mile Read more »

It’s over a year since we put time aside to create our first little open data app and what started as a hacked solution to a personal problem has turned into a popular local resource. The Bath Schools Mashup has …

Lessons from The Bath Schools Mashup Read more »