Tag: open data
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#365daysofpolitics day 22: data!
Finally, I think I got the seats data for the 2015 general election sorted out! I worked on it yesterday so tonight (day 23) I need to test it and make sure it’s validating properly. Also, I had a chance encounter with a friend and had a chat about this little experiment of mine 🙂 as well as…
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#365daysofpolitics day 13: data wrangling
I’ve started work today on a script to automatically generated the seats data needed for the election data project. With that done, future elections should be easier to put together.
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#365daysofpolitics day 2: independent, machine-readable election stats
Having stayed up all night to watch the election (depressing as it was) I took the opportunity to collate the general election results. The project gives us an open data source showing the results for each constituency, and the seats. It’s not quite finished, and I plan to add JSON as well as CSV versions…
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Think open data is just the realm of geeks? Not in Lichfield…
This is partly the reason why I love Lichfield so much. Our council CEO recently joined Twitter and was last night tweeting (much revered) webmaster, Stuart Harrion; [blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/#!/Ninadawesldc/status/133285420699095042″] Where else do you get a council chief exec tweeting her webby on a Sunday evening about the Open Government License?! Fantastic!
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Five ways to make a difference with data – a round up of #madwdwm
As part of the Making a difference with data project I was asked to run an ‘unworkshop’ for the West Midlands which pulled together hyperlocal site owners, local government folk and data geeks. Thanks to Nick Booth‘s generosity we had a suitable venue where we could gather. We had 16 people altogether and a good mix of backgrounds. It was…