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Map of Greater Manchester made up of different coloured hexagons
10
Oct
Projects, Uncategorized

Making a Hex Bin Layer for Greater Manchester

Posted on October 10, 2017July 7, 2020 by Julian Tait

(Or your area of choice, because, y’know, I’ve done it for Greater Manchester) This post was written by Jamie Whyte and appears on his Medium channel with other data stories

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Posted in Projects, Uncategorized
Graph showing grants awarded by various funders
07
Apr
Projects

Exploring Grant Awards in the UK

Posted on April 7, 2017July 7, 2020 by Julian Tait

By Robin Gower. GrantNav brings together information about grants awarded by a variety of funders in the UK. Because the data is published with a common standard, it’s easy to

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Projects

Open Data Cooperation — Building a data cooperative

Posted on April 7, 2015April 12, 2021 by Julian Tait

Last year Open Data Manchester held two workshops one in Berlin and the other in Manchester to explore whether cooperative structures could enable the creation of open data and personal

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Posted in Projects  |  Tagged data cooperative, Data Cooperatives, data custodianship, data trust, democracy
People voting in a pop-up polling booth
01
Apr
Open Data Manchester, Projects

Democracy projects – Open Election Special

Posted on April 1, 2015June 25, 2020 by Julian Tait

It was appropriate that March’s Open Data Manchester meeting should focus on projects related to the forthcoming elections. Not only because the country goes to the polls next month but

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Two shopping bags full of fruit
07
Jul
Uncategorized

Growing data

Posted on July 7, 2013July 7, 2020 by Julian Tait

**The following guest post is by Farida Vis from the Everyday Growing Cultures research project. The project looks at the potentially transformative effect of bringing together the food growing and

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Projects

Open data and the personalisation of experience

Posted on July 7, 2012July 7, 2020 by Julian Tait

Earlier in July at SMC_MCR, a monthly digital and social technology meet up in Manchester UK, BBC R&D demonstrated a new approach to personalised entertainment called Perceptive Media. It is

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Open Data Manchester

Open data in Manchester: Challenges and opportunities

Posted on August 22, 2011July 7, 2020 by Julian Tait

This blog post was originally written for the Open Knowledge Foundation blog. Open Data Cities was initiated in May 2009, premised on the simple question of how cities would evolve

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Uncategorized

Licensing – why is it so important?

Posted on April 6, 2011July 7, 2020 by Julian Tait

This blog post originally was originally written for FutureEverything as part of their Open Data Cities programme. I’m no expert but I really need to be — Licensing Licensing is a subject

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Community

Why Open Data?

Posted on April 14, 2010July 9, 2020 by Julian Tait

Back in May 2009 after the final presentations at Futuresonic 09, I sat down with Adam Greenfield and we talked about how cities evolved and grew, and how they developed

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