[open-sustainability] Data Explorer Mission on Carbon Data

[Lucy Chambers]

Brilliant Adrian, I will ping you off list....


On Tuesday, 9 April 2013, Adrien Labaeye wrote:

> Dear Lucy,
>
> I am very interested to get involved. Not sure yet what would the best way
> to get involved, but writing a post for the blog could be a way. to start.
>
> For the background, I am a researcher on socio-ecological transitions and
> starting an interdisciplinary PhD on the role of information in
> environmental governance of cities. I am very interested in carbon data for
> cities which is something very difficult to access.
>
> Will there be a specific mailing list?
>
> Kind regards,
>
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> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'lucy.chambers at okfn.org');>
> > wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Next week - the School of Data team will pilot a Data Explorer Mission
>> with P2PU. This is a way to get people to explore a topic, while at the
>> same time building their data skills through experimentation and doing.
>>
>> In light of Hans Rosling's speech at OKFestival, the topic of this first
>> data explorer mission is Carbon data, and we're reverse engineering a
>> guardian article published a while back on the topic. and encouraging
>> people to see new angles in the data and tell a story with them. For the
>> first time, we're piloting our badging system as well...
>>
>> We're aiming to start quite basic, but the mission can get as ambitious
>> as the participants desire as they will all be working towards some kind of
>> project.
>>
>> I wondered whether this would be of interest to anyone from the
>> open-sustainability group? Possible ways to get involved could be:
>>
>> 1) Participating in an expedition group (groups kept to around 10
>> people), so it could be really handy to have people who know the topic and
>> could guide or facilitate with topic-specific knowledge
>> 2) Writing some guest blog posts on what the juicy / tricky parts in
>> carbon data are that people should look out for, which we could feature on
>> the School of Data blog
>> 3) Being willing to answer topic-specific questions if people have them!
>> 4) We're starting with some basic data (
>> https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AonYZs4MzlZbdFF1QW00ckYzOG0yWkZqcUhnNDVlSWc&hl=en#gid=1),
>> but it would be super useful to know if there are any key or more up-to
>> date datasources we should point people to
>>
>> Every exploration group will be different and we hope to see some great
>> projects coming out the other end,
>>
>> Looking forward to it nd would love to hear the group's thoughts, You can
>> reach the team on schoolofdata at okfn.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'schoolofdata at okfn.org');> !
>>
>> Lucy
>>
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