Data journalism and civic technology organisation Code for Africa has received a US$4.7-million investment from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. According to a blog post written by Code for Africa head Justin Arenstein, the funding will be used to …
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The free, open source tool will have a recommendation system to help users visualise and better understand data
Here are some things that caught our attention last week: If you’re anything like me, you’re a sucker for algorithm visualization. These sorting algorithm animations and Mike Bostock’s visualizations of sampling, shuffling, sorting and maze generation are among my favorites. So I was delighted to find R2D3’s Visual Introduction to …
Retailers such as Tesco are using weather forecasting data to accurately predict – and fulfill – how the weather affects customer purchasing trends. For commercial enterprises there are also arguments in favour of opening up its own datasets as well …
Originally published on 29th Jun 2015 Nobody talks much about the pitfalls of using open data in a real life project. I’ll make a start. My first real application of open data was to supplement the education pages on my wife’s …
This is the fourth in a series of posts on data related the Millennium Development Goals based on the 2015 Edition of World Development Indicators. Millennium Development Goal 4 is to “Reduce child mortality” and is measured against a target …
MDG4: A dramatic decline in child mortality over the last 20 years Read more »
This is a guest post from George Ingram, senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution and Chair of Publish What You Fund’s U.S. Advisory Committee (originally posted here) With considerable discussion and side events expected …
Tuesday 28th July 6.30pm – 8.30pm Spaceport X 1st Floor 24-26 Lever Street Manchester M1 1DZ Sign up on Eventbrite here Stop Making Pie Charts kicked off our data visualisation series last month with Infonomic’s Robin Gower highlighting how easy it is to make …
How do you fit into the global population distribution? via population.io I’m a huge fan of demography. I think it’s vital to understand the changing size, structure and distribution of the world’s population in order to make sense of pretty …
On World Population Day, I’m older than 54% of the world’s population. What about you? Read more »
Nashville is digging deeper into its data – the city’s Metro Human Relations Commission and Code for Nashville have unveiled a new data visualization platform that will allow the public to view and track diversity within the Metro Government of …
Nashville Uses Data to Track, Improve Workforce Diversity Read more »