[open-sustainability] Data Explorer Mission on Carbon Data

Mon Apr 15 19:21:42 UTC 2013

Hi Lucy

I have been banging on about this for some time, without having enough time
(or skills!) myself to really do the data digging. I'd be happy to write a
blog post to point people in the right direction.

Best wishes

Maya

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On 9 April 2013 12:30, Lucy Chambers <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 !
>
> Lucy
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