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Designing With Data Event Reveals Full Speaker Lineup #DataFest20 #BeyondData

The full speaker lineup for next month’s Designing With Data: The Future of Videogames event has been announced.

The keynote presentation will be from Dr Luke Dicken, the Director of Applied AI at Zynga, where he leads a team driving innovation at the intersection of AI, Analytics, Game Development and Computational Creativity. Luke’s long term passion lies in using AI and data-centric tools to…

Join the Financial Services for Good Datathon Challenge

Data scientists and fintech entrepreneurs from across Scotland have been invited to compete in Deloitte’s 2018 Datathon.

The event is a 24-hour ‘hack’ or ‘jam’, which will focus on Financial Services for Good, exploring how financial data can be used to help address some of the biggest challenges facing society today.

Deloitte told DIGIT that while comparable to hackathons, datathonsare intensive…

Data Warriors for Good

The Data Lab was established with a core mission to generate significant economic, social and scientific value from data. In the four years since then we’ve encountered people in many different sectors who have gone above and beyond to share enthusiasm for data. We want to champion them.

Data Warriors

Scotland’s ‘Data Warriors’ – will be celebrated at DataFest 18. We’ll shine a light on their…

DataFest challenges students’ statistical and analytical smarts

Virginia Tech’s Computational Modeling and Data Analytics Club will host its second DataFest competition Friday through Sunday in the New Classroom Building. DataFest is a competition for which the data and the analytical questions are provided by the American Statistical Association (ASA). In teams, students win by being judged as having the best solutions to the questions posed for the event.…

Collaboration between different open groups has been on my mind since I first read about Stevie Benton's joint MozFest session, which took place in London last year. That session brought together open organisations such as Mozilla, Creative Commons and the Open Knowledge Foundation to discuss how their shared interests and goals could best be managed for mutual benefit. It became part of a larger project which has since become known as the Open Coalition.

Stevie Benton (who is Head of External Relations at Wikimedia UK) has been instrumental not only in initiating the Open Coalition project, but also in securing funding for a Project Coordinator role to support it. The position is for a six-month period in the first instance, but we hope that one of the coalition partners will provide matching funding to extend the duration. I think this is an exciting development, and I'll be following it closely.  

In collaboration with Bob Kerr and Ewan Klein, I have recently been pursuing an initiative that embodies the goals of the Open Coalition. Datafest Scotland 2014 is a three-day event that we hope to hold in Glasgow later this year. One of the most innovative aspects of the event is the range of organisations who are participating in the planning – including Open Knowledge Foundation Scotland Local Group, OpenStreetMap, Wikimedia UK, the National Library of Scotland, and Open Glasgow / Future Cities Demonstrator. And we’re optimistic that other groups and organisations will pitch in to support this event.

With all this in mind it seemed only logical to invite Stevie to the forthcoming OKF Scotland meetup in Edinburgh (22nd January at the National Library of Scotland) to tell us more about the Open Coalition. Hopefully we in the Scottish open knowledge and open access community will be able to share our collaborative experience and contribute to the project's success. 

Graeme Arnott

Community Coordinator for Open Knowledge Foundation Scotland

These are the 2 winners form Guatemala that will participate in the regional contest:

MIgrant Budget:

http://www.americas.datafest.net/a/datafest.net/americasdatafest/resources/project-list/migrant-budget

Inmigraphics:

http://www.americas.datafest.net/a/d…