SpeedData: Chris Taggart on Open Election Data
Chris Taggart of OpenlyLocal spoke briefly during his presentation about his work with several councils to provide open election data for the elections on May 6. As Chris points out it is something of a surprise that election data isn’t just available freely. But it isn’t. Well, at least until Chris got involved. I got [...]
Bournville Village Blog, a how-to in local blogging
Over at Talk About Local, Nicky Getgood (a brilliant local blogger herself) has written a short piece about the new hyper-local blog Bournville Village started by journalism graduate Hannah Waldram. As Hannah is not only a journalism graduate (like myself), but apparently also managed to do something with social media, I knew I had to [...]
Thinking out loud about data use
Sometimes it can be enough simply voicing your ideas and someone will take a stab at it, simply because they can. The challenge is to think about how data works, and what is possible. Tony Hirst know A LOT about data use, and is kind enough to share most of it with the world. In [...]
