[School-of-data] School of Data Weekly Update

Tue Sep 11 07:25:35 UTC 2012

Hello to everyone,

We have lots going on behind the scenes here at the School of Data. Here is
what's new this week:

Courses

** Our alpha cohort is testing the first courses and giving great feedback.
We're incorporating feedback into new courses as we write them. A hearty
Thank You to all our alpha testers!!

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Blog

** Data Roundup - Data News From Around the Web:
http://schoolofdata.org/2012/09/11/data-roundup-september-11/

** Net Neutrality Map by Michael Bauer:
http://schoolofdata.org/2012/09/06/netneutralitymap-org-converting-700gb-of-data-to-a-map/

** Equivalent Salary Converter by Nigel Babu:
http://schoolofdata.org/2012/09/03/equivalent-salary-converter-making-of/

** Geolocating Wells in South Sudan by Dominik Moritz:
http://schoolofdata.org/2012/08/31/geo-locating-wells-in-south-sudan-how-to-wrangle-data-for-development/

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Handbook

** Accessing Data from Google Storage:
http://handbook.schoolofdata.org/en/latest/recipes/accessing-data-from-google-storage.html
** Creating a Choropleth Map:
http://handbook.schoolofdata.org/en/latest/recipes/choropleth-maps.html

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Events

The Open Knowledge Festival happens NEXT WEEK in Helsinki!

School of Data will be running an Open Peer Learning
Workshop<http://okfestival.org/schoolofdata/> on
Wednesday the 19th, from 11:30-15:30, with Peer to Peer University and
Creative Commons. Sign up for the
workshop<http://peerlearningworkshop.eventbrite.com/>.
(p.s. Tickets to OKFest are going fast! Get your ticket
soon<http://okfestival.org/early-bird-okfest-tickets/>
.)

If you'll be at the OKFest, we'd love to meet you! If you can't make it to
the workshop, please stop us anytime for a chat. The School of Data team
is: Laura Newman <http://okfn.org/members/lauranewman/> (, Michael
Bauer<http://okfn.org/members/mihi/>,
and Jen Lowe <http://okfn.org/members/jenlowe/>.

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Any questions or feedback for us? Send it to schoolofdata at okfn.org or find
us on twitter at @SchoolofData <https://twitter.com/SchoolOfData>.

--Jen & the School of Data Team

-- 
Jen Lowe
Data Wrangler
Open Knowledge Foundation
http://okfn.org/
jen.lowe at okfn.org
Skype: datatelling
Twitter: @datatelling
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