[ddj] Election Data Community Hangout

Thu May 2 12:46:28 UTC 2013

Fantastic!

But ... I am afraid I cannot attend. Any chance to see a recorded session
later?

Cheers
Saul

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Michael Bauer <michael.bauer at okfn.org>wrote:

> Today is election day for several UK local councils. Elections are usually
> reported by using tons of statistics, graphs and metrics. We’ll look into
> Election data in a Community hangout tomorrow May 3rd 2013 at 2pm-3pm BST.
>
> We’ll talk about how to obtain data, what you can do with it, ways to
> visualize it and try to think outside the box.
>
>
> If you want to participate in this community hangout: sign up here:
>
> https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/forms/d/1aOIh9vEb4kEpAEnV106EPuRNwbK3vRLFQlZ9KP4juew/viewform
>
> We'll have a google hangout so space is limited to 9 participants (+1
> facilitator) - If you're happy to facilitate please note in the form and
> we'll contact you (so we can have more than one call).
>
> Interesting reading along the way:
>
> Getting ward boundries:
>
> http://blog.ouseful.info/2013/05/02/shapefiles-for-electoral-wards-covered-by-a-particular-geography/
> Local Election Factsheet:
> http://fullfact.org/articles/local_elections_factsheet_may_2013-28903
> A quick guide to mapping local elections:
>
> http://schoolofdata.org/2013/05/02/proving-the-data-a-quick-guide-to-mapping-local-elections/
> Gregor Aisch German local election visualization:
> http://nds2013.vis4.net/electionmaps/
>
> See you there!
>
> Michael
>
> --
> Data Wrangler with the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN.org)
> GPG/PGP key: http://tentacleriot.eu/mihi.asc
> Twitter: @mihi_tr Skype: mihi_tr
>
> _______________________________________________
> data-driven-journalism mailing list
> data-driven-journalism at lists.okfn.org
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/data-driven-journalism
> Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/data-driven-journalism
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/data-driven-journalism/attachments/20130502/227c80e5/attachment-0001.html>