Data in December: Sharing Data Journalism Love in Tunisia
Ali Rebaie - January 11, 2016 in Big Data, Data Blog, Data Expeditions, Data for CSOs, Data Journalism, data science, data visualization, Open Data, School of Data, Tunisia




Ali Rebaie - January 11, 2016 in Big Data, Data Blog, Data Expeditions, Data for CSOs, Data Journalism, data science, data visualization, Open Data, School of Data, Tunisia
Nkechi Okwuone - July 20, 2015 in community, Data Blog, Data for CSOs, Data+Drinks, fellowship, Nigeria
Data is now available online, but what next? This is the throbbing question on the mind of open data stakeholders, both from the supply and demand side of it.
While 60% of them had heard of Open data, the 40% left had never heard of it. A few of them just walked into the event by pure curiosity: ‘what is this open data is about, is it a project or a tool?’
One of the participants, a well-known regional activist, wondered:“Why all the investment in collection and releasing of data and how does it affect me as an individual or change all the fundamental issues we have in Nigeria?”As an answer to that question and many others, we took them through the journey of what open data is and its benefits to their various activity using both international and local success stories.
Of course stick-ons where involved! The participants documented their area of interest, their experience with data and the challenges they are facing working with it. They were generally more interested in how open data can help advocacy activities, improve the educational sector, help farmers and journalism. Many of them were unaware of the places where they could find the data they need, so data sourcing and collection was a major challenge. Another issue was working with data: analysing, visualizing and making use of it.
These findings helped us understand the community better and will help us design more focused trainings and engagements in the future.Nkechi Okwuone - May 15, 2015 in community, Data for CSOs, Events, fellowship, hackathon, Nigeria, Open Data
Dona Dzambaska - April 10, 2015 in community, Data for CSOs, Events, Macedonia, Meetup, News, opendata, School of Data - Macedonia, Skopje
Happy Feraren - March 23, 2015 in community, Data for CSOs, Data Journalism
We called, they answered: From magazine feature writers, to animators, and expert programmers who do data projects for fun -the event was a good mix of diverse personalities from different sectors as well (private sector, NGOs, government).
Sentiments Visualized: Mich Rama of Dakila (a local NGO) and one of the Data Jam participants, used the online tool Infogr.am to instantly create a word cloud and pie chart.
Dona Dzambaska - January 5, 2015 in Data for CSOs, Skillhare
Yuandra Ismiraldi - December 5, 2014 in Data for CSOs, Events
Yuandra Ismiraldi - December 3, 2014 in community, Data for CSOs, Events
Yuandra Ismiraldi - November 7, 2014 in Data for CSOs, Events
Oludotun Babayemi - October 1, 2014 in #OpenData Party, Budget Data, Budget Tracking, community, Data Expeditions, Data for CSOs, Events, Follow the Money, Geocoding, Mapping, Nigeria, spreadsheets, Storytelling, visualisation, Zamfara
Taking participants through the data pipelines and how it relates to the Monitoring and Evaluation System