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28
Feb
Open Data Manchester

Mapping Your World

Posted on February 28, 2019July 7, 2020 by Sam Milsom

On Tuesday 26th February, Open Data Manchester decamped from our usual home at The Federation and trotted down to Tech Incubator in the Manchester Science Park on Oxford Road, where

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11
Feb
Open Data Manchester, Uncategorized

Things Manchester — January 2019 Meet Up

Posted on February 11, 2019July 7, 2020 by Julian Tait

This was our first meeting at a new venue, the Innovation Centre of Manchester Science Park. There was around 20 attendees, mostly new faces to LoRaWAN and our Things Manchester

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Posted in Open Data Manchester, Uncategorized
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31
Jan
Uncategorized

Open:Data:Night January 2019— a summary

Posted on January 31, 2019July 7, 2020 by Sam Milsom

On Tuesday 29th January, we hosted our first public meetup of 2019 — ‘Open:Data:Night’, an evening of presentation and project sharing from Manchester’s open data community. Tom Passmore from Dsposal kicked off

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18
Dec
Projects

Mapping Mobility in Stockport

Posted on December 18, 2018June 3, 2024 by Sam Milsom

We’re happy to announce that we’ve partnered with Stockport Council on a project called ‘Mapping Mobility Stockport’, funded through the ODI Geospatial Fund. Working with Age UK and Disability Stockport,

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Posted in Projects  |  Tagged Age UK, Disability Stockport, Joy Diversion, mapping experience, Mapping Mobility, OpenStreetMap, Stockport, Workshops
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15
Nov
Uncategorized

Joy Diversion Aberdeen at Open Data Camp 6

Posted on November 15, 2018July 7, 2020 by Sam Milsom

During the first weekend of November, the Open Data Manchester team travelled to Aberdeen for Open Data Camp 6, an ‘unconference’ for all things open data. Hosted on the University

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12
Nov
Projects, Uncategorized

Digging for Data in Wigan

Posted on November 12, 2018July 7, 2020 by Julian Tait

There is a wealth of data created about the communities that we live in, and although this data is publicly available, many of us simply don’t know it exists — let alone

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19
Oct
Uncategorized

So you think you know your country — revealing the hidden patterns in local democracy.

Posted on October 19, 2018July 7, 2020 by Sam Milsom

Post written by Pamilla Kang. Data is an undeniable part of modern society. Perhaps surprisingly, an incredible amount of data is collected about our daily lives and the communities in

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10
May
Uncategorized

Generosity and Conviviality in the Age of Algorithmic Oppression

Posted on May 10, 2018July 7, 2020 by Julian Tait

This abridged post was written by Marc Hudson and originally appeared at marchudson.net This was a superb event. A diverse audience of somewhere between 80 and 90 attended a truly

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Projects, Uncategorized

Deprivation vs Representation — building a dataset

Posted on April 16, 2018July 7, 2020 by Julian Tait

There is a wealth of statistical data that is created about the communities in which we live, yet these statistics, how they are created and what they reveal are often

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Projects

Scraping TfGM’s Metrolink Fare Data

Posted on October 23, 2017July 7, 2020 by Julian Tait

This post was written by Jamie Whyte and appears along with other stories about data here. On thursday, we were contacted by our pals over at ODI Leeds, who have

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