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- InfoAmazonia and Why We Should Talk About
Geojournalism<http://schoolofdata.org/2013/06/20/infoamazonia-and-why-we-sh=
ould-talk-about-geojournalism/>
- Data Roundup 19th
June<http://schoolofdata.org/2013/06/19/data-roundup-june-19/>.
By Neil Ashton.
- Data Explorer Mission from the Inside: an Agent=92s
Story<http://schoolofdata.org/2013/06/18/data-explorer-mission-from-the-ins=
ide-an-agents-story/>
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Want to know what happened on the data explorer
mission<http://schoolofdata.org/datamooc/>?
One of the participants explains what they got from the experience.
- On the Radar: Using Data to Save
Lives<http://schoolofdata.org/2013/06/17/on-the-radar-using-data-to-save-li=
ves/>
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Invisible Children and the LRA crisis tracker. Invisible Children and th=
e
LRA crisis tracker.
New Tutorials
- Get Started With Scraping =96 Extracting Simple Tables from PDF
Documents<http://schoolofdata.org/2013/06/18/get-started-with-scraping-extr=
acting-simple-tables-from-pdf-documents/>
All the best,
Lucy
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