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Publishing Open Data with PowerBI

Posted on June 11, 2016 by

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Microsoft’s PowerBI is a new tool for creating reports and visualisations. The desktop application is currently free and publishing data is very easy. Step 1 Open your data from the wide selection …

Tagged with: data visualisation, hyperlocal, Microsoft, open data, PowerBI

From data crunching to storytelling: Lessons from six months of Urbs.London

Posted on November 9, 2015 by

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Comments Credit: By Justgrimes on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Over the past six months, journalist Gary Rogers and media strategist Alan Renwick have run the experimental website Urbs.London, a news operation which turns open data into news stories. The site…

How the Census Bureau evangelizes open data

Posted on August 13, 2015 by

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Apps using open data to solve civic problems were showcased at Census Bureau demo day.

Tagged with: Bianca Spinosa, competition, FCW, hyperlocal, open data, U.S. Census Bureau

#HLDJ Conference 6th and 7th November 2015

Posted on June 22, 2015 by

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This post was created automatically from a feed, and was originally published at: http://digidickinson.net/2015/06/22/hldj-conference-6th-and-7th-november-2015/ This isn’t meant to be a conference about Hyperlocal data journalism (but it could be!) It’s a conference about the way that Hyperlocal AND/OR data AND/OR journalism…

Is that a car park in your pocket?

Posted on December 22, 2014 by

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My wife has a high bar for things that can genuinely be called useful. Bath: Hacked has finally managed to impress her. I love open data and bang on a lot about it – it’ll change the world, right? Unfortunately…