Tag: 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 6: pleading
I’ve just finished off a bunch of work to the 2015 election stats project I’ve been working on. Thanks to contributions from others, it looks like we now have votes for all constituencies and the validation is passing – woohoo! There’s some next steps, which I’ve created issues for. Feel free to help me out…
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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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Stop whining about privacy: YOU are the one GIVING it away
Following Facebook’s announcement of their “Home” app, many people seem to have read Om Malik’s melodramatic cry over spilt milk: Om says, “But there is a bigger worry. The phone’s GPS can send constant information back to the Facebook servers, telling it your whereabouts at any time.” Yes, it can Om, you’re right. And how…
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Why I backed App.net
Given the choice I’d prefer to pay for a product than be the product. I want ownership of my own data, my own mutterings, musing, incoherent rants and drivvle. My own words and creations should be available to me in the format I want them in, not subject to someone else’s corporate branding guidelines and platform…
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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…