[Ecoledesdonnees] Fw: Latest from School of Data

[Samuel Goëta]

Bonjour, 

voici la newsletter de School of data dans laquelle on parle de nous ! :) 

Apparemment les cours vont changer de format, je pars me renseigner. Si vous avez des retours à faire suite à la traduction, n’hésitez pas à nous les indiquer pour qu’on fasse passer le message. 
Quoiqu’il en soit, pour la traduction, ça ne change pas la validité et l’intérêt des contenus traduits. 

Nous revenons rapidement vers vous pour la relecture et la publication de la première version du site de l’Ecole des données. 

A bientôt 

Samuel (G.) 
On 2 décembre 2013 at 10:33:43, School of Data Newsletter (newsletter at schoolofdata.org) wrote:

		
Hello,
It has been a busy month at School of Data! Read on to learn about new tutorials, November's workshops, and planned changes to the site.

Courses: redesign and new certification
School of Data is about to implement some big changes in its courses—and we need your help to make it work.

The template for School of Data courses is about to undergo a major redesign. We need help from our users in identifying the best School of Data courses and in putting them into the new format.

School of Data is also exploring ways of adding certification to its courses. We'll be posting an update about this soon, so stay watching!



Data Expedition: Nigerian Extractives (7 December)
This Saturday, a team of data explorers will come together online for a data expedition on the extractive industries of Nigeria. They will learn network analysis, geomapping, and web scraping skills hands on by cracking open data to investigate the Nigerian oil industry's corporate supply chain.

Keep an eye on the blog for updates on the results of the expedition!



Welcome Escola de Dados
Escola de Dados, the Portuguese-language School of Data, launched in October, bringing School of Data learning materials and methodology to the Lusophone world.

More new localizations of School of Data are on their way. School of Data's French and Greek chapters are, as we speak, working on new Schools of Data in their native languages.



School of Data around the world
The School of Data team has been all around the world in November holding workshops, data expeditions, and other trainings.

Zara Rahman held a data expedition on bilateral aid flows at Open Development Camp in Amsterdam.
Milena Marin and Michael Bauer held a data expedition on election data at a civic tech camp in Sarajevo.
School of Data hosted a full-day training at the International Conference of Crisis Mappers in Nairobi.
Milena and Michael ran a workshop and attended a data journalism bootcamp in Moldova.
In next month's newsletter, you can read about our forthcoming trips to Spain and Egypt!



ask.schoolofdata.org
Need help working with data? Itching to help others? Come to ask.schoolofdata.org, our forum for questions and answers on data wrangling.

Check out this month's answers for some advice on how to clean time data, good ways to browse JSON files, and a simple way to draw a choropleth map.

Know your data? Why not help out by answering some questions? Recent open questions include:

Is there a way to automatically distribute data from a cell into a column of matching value after sorting with text to column?
Is it a good idea to translate the DCAT vocabulary into other languages?
What should you use to import live election data from CSV?


From the blog
This was a big month for guest posts on the School of Data blog.

This month, we republished a series of "Learning Lunches" by OpenNews Fellow Noah Veltman: friendly tutorials on technical subjects relevant to the modern newsroom, fostering more productive conversation around them between journalists, developers, and designers. Check out our full set of Lunches on the blog.

The blog also featured several guest posts highlighting data-driven projects by NGOs around the world. Check out great posts on carbon footprint data in Spain, human rights advocacy in the US, fires data in Portugal, and visualizing the oil industry in Brazil.


School of Data is going to be revamping its courses in the near future, and we need help from our users in identifying the best courses to overhaul and to port them into the new design template. Stay tuned for more updates on how you can join in.
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