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Diversion sign, with 'Joy' added to it, so it reads 'Joy Diversion'
07
May
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Joy Diversion — 27th April 2019

Posted on May 7, 2019April 12, 2021 by Sam Milsom

On Saturday 27th April, Joy Diversion returned for the first time this year. Despite having been visited Storm Hannah the night before, our intrepid explorers weren’t put off and we

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Posted in Uncategorized  |  Tagged Joy Diversion, mapping experience
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
Neon sign saying 'Open Data Night'
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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A plastic toy albatross on an old map of Aberdeen
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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Posted in Projects, Uncategorized
A closed and dilapidated sea-front cafe with 'Jug of Tea' written on it
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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Posted in Projects, Uncategorized
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
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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