(This article was first published on Working With Data » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) This entry is part 18 of 18 in the series Using R Seattle’s Pronto bikeshare system recently announced a Data Challenge for data visualization using …
Laser data from the Environment Agency is to be used to pinpoint land suitable for growing high quality grapes
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 …
I just returned from London where I attended the terrific 3rd annual CityLab conference organized by the Atlantic Magazine and the Bloomberg Foundation, with support of the Aspen Institute. I am inspired. In two days I met and spoke with …
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 …
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
Open Data Camp UK have published one of my posts telling you a bit about our sponsorship of the upcoming Open Data Camp in Manchester. The second camp of the year; it’ll be held on the 10-11 October at The …
I was playing one of the games in the SimCity series recently when it struck me that this and similar games are a very good model for what we want from Smart Cities. Let me explain what I mean. All …
This third outing in their data visualisation series is a more in depth look at the tools you can use for data visualisation, such as R and leaflet.js or Google Fusion. More information about the event, including details of how to …
Open Data Manchester Data visualisation series – Getting to grips with data Read more »
If you’re looking for some inspiration about what applications and services can be made available with the power of local data, look no further than the city of Melbourne in Australia. Voted the “World’s Most Liveable City” five years running, …
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