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- 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
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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
## Big up some awesome tools
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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
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Hi All,
Did you miss us? Here's the latest from what we have been up to!
## Data Diva Travels the World
## 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!
Missed the signup? Take a look here: http://schoolofdata.org/get-started-as-a-community-mentor/
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/
* Dictionary of numbers: http://flowingdata.com/2013/07/08/dictionary-of-numbers-extension-adds-context-to-numbers/
## 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.
- Extracting Data using Twitter API (new question, 1 ans, 1 ans rev)
- Width and height of each country (new question)
- Google News API (1 ans, 1 ans rev)
- Geocoding APIs? Which one to choose? (1 ans, 1 ans rev)
- How can I find a set URLs for the lat and long of the all the points on an embedded google map (1 ans, 1 ans rev)
That's all for now folks!
Lucy
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