[Ecoledesdonnees] Fwd: Latest from School of Data

Tue Feb 11 17:03:03 UTC 2014

Bonjour à tous,

Pour info, voici ci-dessous la nouvelle newsletter de School of Data dans
laquelle on parle de nous !

Nous poursuivons actuellement la mise en ligne des contenus (après une
pause un peu plus longue que prévue) et nous espérons lancer une première
véritable version du site le 22 février lors de l'Open Data Day.

Nous revenons vers vous rapidement dès que tout est en place !

A bientôt,

Samuel A.

From: School of Data Newsletter <newsletter at schoolofdata.org>
Date: 2014-02-11 17:05 GMT+01:00
Subject: Latest from School of Data
To: azoulay.sa at gmail.com

    [image: School of Data] [image: Newsletter]  Hello,  Greetings from
Schools of Data all across the world--now including Greece and France! Read
on to learn about the activities of the many Schools of Data and about our
new Open Development Toolkit.       Welcome School of Data Greece

Our latest localisation project brings School of Data to sunny Greece. Say
hello to School of Data
Greece<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/zZPVuibyf3LlLAZu7637dIQw/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>,
joining us in the ongoing wave of School of Data localisations!
        Open Development Toolkit

School of Data and Development
Initiatives<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/EBw763iSP7763PloIngZBTZoXA/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>are
pleased to announce the Open
Development Toolkit<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/0892D93892p8YfPTvZkSRkhPWw/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>.
The Toolkit is a hub for tools and training materials around development
data, focusing on the needs of civil society and journalists in low-income
countries. The Toolkit will be focusing on aid data to begin with,
including creating an Aid Curriculum for School of Data.

The Open Development Toolkit is just getting started, and its creators want
to hear about what training needs exist and what funding opportunities are
available. Read more about the Toolkit launch on the
blog<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/J0DfPJudQaq7R9bkCEbPvg/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>
.
        Escola de Dados: São Paolo study group

Escola de Dados, School of Data's Brazilian chapter, is organizing a study
group in São Paulo<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/VMqjb892z7633YvLC2lYqdkdDw/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>,
led by Marco Túlio
Pires<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/OVMRTqISBcOgUzBNOs67Zw/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>.
The idea is to use
MITx<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/89260VhgW6oL0T8927RLpVp7ug/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>'s
Introduction to Computer Science and
Programming<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/hM9psw763w3Bvizma9whvjoQ/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>as
a background course to gather together anyone who's interested in
learning how to transform real-world problems into issues that can be
solved by a computer program.

Escola de Dados will organize a meeting per week during the 12-week course
to help people with the classes and assignments, and they will document
everything. The course starts in nine days, and 40 people in São Paulo have
expressed their interest. Others are grouping themselves independently in
Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, Campo Grande, and the Northeast part of
Brazil. We hope those people can also engage in future data expeditions
Escola de Dados is going to organize in 2014 and form a solid group of
people willing to learn, teach, and *make*!
        Escuela de Datos: HackDF, Chicas Poderosas, and Data Expedition in
Monterrey

Escuela de Datos, School of Data's Spanish-language localisation, has been
incredibly active in the past month. This is just a selection of their many
activities:

   - *HackDF*: Escuela de Datos and
SocialTIC<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/BWnuBjh763fH763P2RF3NIxkcQ/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>attended
the first Open Data Festival in Mexico City on January 25-26,
   where they held a data expedition and trainings on dataviz and data
   journalism (along with Florencia Coelho from La Nación
Data<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/BVHOg6Fw763763AdbcGezrLeDw/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>in
Argentina) and participated as judges in the hackathon. Read more
   here<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/i4pdFlxY763Pmc763FyDlQOakQ/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>.

   - *Chicas Poderosas Mexico*: Escuela and SocialTIC also participated in
   the first Chicas
Poderosas<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/e6RynJJ5SmO7JfB5XAkfmQ/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>held
in Mexico, doing talks and trainings on data clean-up and
   visualization with 70 journalists and designers from all over the country.
   You can read more about it
here<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/jkn38fnYoM63763m6c5sFdaQ/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>.

   - *Data Expedition in Monterrey*: Escuela's most fruitful data
   expedition so far took place in Monterrey, Mexico, with 28 citizens who
   analyzed government spending in creative ways. Their favorite? Religious
   spending in the areas where the governments have given the city keys to
   God. More about this expedition
here<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/HR763vMj1lCsbVmzC763X2cAuQ/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>.

        Escuela de Datos Spain: workshops and hackday

OKF Spain's Escuela de Datos has also been very busy in the past while,
running a number of hackdays and workshops to spread data wrangling skills
throughout Spain:

   - *Workshop on Data Journalism*: Escuela and
eldiario.es<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/vsIuTSzoRZ76312T7638924OVzPw/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>held
the second of two workshops
   on data journalism<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/dRF2OqjGjoSloaI9crhKqw/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>in
Madrid this past December, developing projects on demographic changes
in
   Spain, globalization and health trends, and more.
   - *Editors Lab Hackday*: OKFN Spain and the MediaLab-Prado data
   journalism work
group<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/7lOceuNzcqpzCbA00AAF3A/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>participated
together in a Global
   Editors Network
Hackathon<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/FNlygRoMdMUfRo3hqZxMKQ/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>in
El País, competing with ten of the top editors in Spain to develop a
   "live blogging & breaking news" app. Read about it
here<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/YTxGJpdBQxBnBDoXk892LaIg/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>
   .
   - *Data journalism work sessions*. OKF Spain has been holding seminars
   in data journalism, with two objectives: "to learn and make inroads into
   working with data through workshops and to raise awareness regarding local
   projects". The most recent was held in Barcelona on January 22. Read
   more about it
here<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/5tqEIEazPXOFQ0PV892C8FEQ/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>
   .

        L'Ecole des Données: new URL

The French localisation of School of Data, L'Ecole des Données, now has a
proper URL for its website,
ecoledesdonnees.org<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/W4DJMPw97631OX42sl5amtog/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>
.

The website is still in its beta version, but the L'Ecole des Données team
is actively preparing its launch, which is scheduled for Open Data Day on
February 22. Infographics and images are being created by design students
to illustrate the contents of L'Ecole des Données. They will be shared with
the School of Data community for reuse.
        On the blog

School of Data has had a couple of interesting blog posts this past month
from guest writers. Tarek
Amr<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/42v27fGxLKDSaDw3YistCg/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>has
written about preparing
data visualizations for
print<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/nu5I4O0yO2scSUFey0omRQ/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>,
and Heather Leson<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/5HGUljE8892eOcgWXPxfl892zA/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>has
written up her reflections
on two development data
workshops<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/EOBeIee74P2Guui5fQA5sA/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>.
Visit the blog for the full stories.
        #dataroundup: help find data news

In the last newsletter, we pointed out that we need your
help<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/26YcUL3ecso763erjZbcTv8Q/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>finding
stories for the Data
Roundup<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/SNFQaUMu1z027Icf290p6A/9hYNYthayShWCUdiEf7tEA/zq73WSpJd83ti3i7637DglDg>,
our weekly compilation of news from the world of data.

The Data Roundup is about to get started again in 2014--and we still need
your help finding stories! If you love Twitter and actively follow
developments in data, use the hashtag #dataroundup to bring stories to our
editor's attention.
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-- 
*Samuel Azoulay*

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