[open-data-day] Data Expeditions Experiment on Open Data Day

[Mary Beth Baker]

Thanks Lucy! This is amazing work and an excellent approach for diversifying and building a community beyond developers, data experts and designers. We ran an event last December in Ottawa and with a similar target audience of keen, but non-technical users. It was called #learnhackyow. It went pretty well - the feedback was really positive, but we didn't document the sessions too well. Sounds like we could re-use your expeditions next time.

Were you able to get feedback or send out a survey to participants of your event/expeditions? I would be keen to find out how this target audience felt the event went.

Mary Beth Baker
@bethmaru
Open Data Ottawa




On 2013-02-26, at 12:24 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi All, 
> 
> Thought I'd just quickly drop a note about an experiment we tried on Open Data Day in Berlin and Amsterdam. 
> 
> The School of Data is currently experimenting with what we are calling "Data Expeditions". These are ways of learning about data  by actively working with it. Everyone has a set role - so we think of them a bit like playing Dungeons (or Data) and Dragons. [0] 
> 
> In our experience so far, running these offline and as an accompaniment to Hackathons works particularly well, as not all participants need to be able to code and it gives clearly defined roles for people. We've seen some great teams forming. 
> 
> This set worked particularly well this time as we first ran the Open Data Census - so people already had a good feel for what data was out there by the time they started... 
> 
> FYI: We've put together a toolkit [1], including character sheets, for anyone who would like to run a data expedition in their area and we'd love your feedback on how they go, so we can keep building on these guides for guides to help people leading them around the world. 
> 
> I've also put up a quick blog post about the expeditions in Amsterdam and Berlin - thought it could be interesting here.  
> 
> http://schoolofdata.org/2013/02/26/data-expeditions-on-open-data-day/
> 
> 
> Lucy 
> 
> 
> [0] http://schoolofdata.org/data-expeditions/
> [1] http://schoolofdata.org/data-expeditions/guide-for-guides/
> 
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