10ml.comGood things : small dosesMenuNewsRaspberry PiPythonOpen DataLinked DataOpen GovernmentLocal GovernmentSubscribeFavouritesCodeTheCity 3 – A reflectionDay 1 On a sunny but cool Saturday in February, almost thirty people from as far afield as Edinburgh converged on the Meston Building at Aberdeen University to collaborate on some as-yet-undefined hacks of public services. They came from localian18 February  2015Aberdeen, CodeTheCity, Events, Hacking, Innovation, Open Data, Open Government, ScrapingNo CommentsRead moreGrampian Information Conference 2014 – Buzzword BingoOn Thursday 6th November I’ll be giving a talk at the Grampian Information Conference. During my talk we’ll be playing a game of Buzzword Bingo. Below are two bingo cards which you can download and print. Buzzword Bingo Card 1ian4 November  2014competition, Grampian Information ConferenceNo CommentsRead moreA Scotland-wide FOI search facility?Updated (*) 17/1014 2 new bullet points at the end. At the first Code The City event, held in Aberdeen in June 2014, one of the projects which was worked on for the weekend was the setting up of aian13 October  2014Coding, EUCommons, Hacking, Linux, Local Government, Open Data, Programming, Python, Scraping, UncategorizedNo CommentsRead moreScraping Twitter data with Morph.ioAt work we operate a number of Twitter Accounts, and we have been monitoring the number followers each has, on a monthly basis, for a number of years. The collection of the data – which we normally put into aian30 August  2014Scraping, Social Media, TwitterNo CommentsRead moreWhat next for CodeTheCity?We kicked off CodeTheCity with our first Aberdeen event on 21st – 22nd June 2014 which really couldn’t have been better. We had some 38 volunteers – service users, service owners, coders, designers, bloggers – all of whom turned upian26 June  2014Code4Europe, CodeTheCity, Events, Hacking, Innovation, Linked Data, Open Data, Open Government, Scraping, UncategorizedNo CommentsRead moreMatchTheCity Project at CodeTheCity
A quick update from Code The City. I’m working with the #MatchTheCity project team. Our aim is to provide some of the data and infrastructure to support other projects – such as #BigSociety. I’ve been working with Dave Morrison, the
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22 June  2014
Code4Europe, CodeTheCity, Coding, Hacking, Local Government, Open Data, Open Government, Scraping
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Scraping Tools – A quick round-up
I’ve written here before about using Scraperwiki to scrape content from websites which haven’t implemented OpenData. I have even used Scraper Wiki to scrape our own website to get badly-formed content out in a structured way for a hack. Now,
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2 April  2014
APIs, Hacking, Open Data, Python, Scraping
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Code For Europe (Scotland)
As I wrote in my previous post, Aberdeen City Council have joined Code for Europe 2014. Following the international meeting