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  • From: Jane Park <janepark AT creativecommons.org>
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  • Subject: [Ccafrica-oer] Fwd: [School-of-data-announce] The Latest from the School of Data
  • Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 12:36:30 -0700

FYI - for those in Nairobi when Michael from School of Data is around!

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From: Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers AT okfn.org>
Date: Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:20 PM
Subject: [School-of-data-announce] The Latest from the School of Data
To: school-of-data-announce AT lists.okfn.org


Hi All, 

Did you miss us? Here's the latest from what we have been up to! 

## Data Diva Travels the World 

School of Data’s Diva Michael Bauer is going to be in Nairobi, Kenya at the beginning of August. He plans to run a Data Expedition with the Data Dredger people at Internews and do an event with Hacks/Hackers Nairobi. If you’re interested in meeting him while he's there or know of people he should be in contact with: ping @mihi_tr or email schoolofdata AT okfn.org

## Community mentors ready to roll 

Thank you so much to all of you who applied to be community mentors, we've had such a great response that we can't induct everyone at once. 

We're currently inducting the first round of mentors and as soon as we are underway - will get rolling with the next round! 


## Big up some awesome tools 

There hasn't been enough noise made about these amazing tools which have recently come out - so we wanted to tell you about them: 

* The Open Corporates new visualisation tool to visualise global company networks: http://schoolofdata.org/2013/07/11/using-public-data-to-flag-tax-avoidance-schemes/ 
* Tabula - a tool for extracting tables out of PDFS has released a desktop version: http://jazzido.github.io/tabula/ 

## Get Involved 

* Fancy being the curator of the School of Data Handbook? "Librarians" needed: We've been producing loads of material and publishing it via the blog - we need people to take them, librarian-style and pull them into the Data Wrangling Handbook and course pages. 

We'll aim to organise several librarian sprints over the next couple of months to update the handbook - so if you want to join the team to make the Handbook your baby, give us a shout on schoolofdata [at] okfn.org


Some great questions getting asked in the forum - can you help? Here's a selection. 
That's all for now folks!

Lucy 


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