Category Archives: Hacking

Facts Are Sacred – a review

Posted on 6 May 2013 by ian

Facts are Sacred is the new book by Simon Rogers, the award-wining editor of guardian.co.uk/data and a news editor on the Guardian, working with the graphics team to bring figures to life on the page. He was closely involved with … Continue reading →

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Aberdeen Cultural Hackathon 4th – 5th May

Posted on 8 April 2013 by ian

Aberdeen’s newest Hackathon is all set to go ahead! Mark your diaries for 4th and 5th May. Details of how to get involved in this coding weekend with a difference are below. After several weeks of trying to agree dates … Continue reading →

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Adventures with a Raspberry Pi – Part 4

Posted on 11 January 2013 by ian

If you’ve read the previous parts of this article you’ll find I have set up my Raspberry Pi by formatting the SD card and installing the Raspbian OS, setting it up on my home network and assigning it a static … Continue reading →

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Adventures with a Raspberry Pi – Part 3

Posted on 10 January 2013 by ian

I wrote in my last post about how I got SSH working on my Pi allowing me to connect remotely and run command line tasks on the Raspberry Pi. The next step was to set up a means of running … Continue reading →

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Use IFTTT & Readitlater to mine info from Twitter

Posted on 2 February 2012 by ian

While the following post uses #opendata as an example subject to pull information from Twitter, the methodolgy is generic. The background is that I love to know what is happening in the world of Open Data, but there are so … Continue reading →

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PLODS – but faster

Posted on 6 April 2011 by ian

The following article is an adaptation of one I wrote for my team’s internal blog at work. Today I coined an acronym. PLODS – Public Linked Open Data Sets. Anyone who does not understand why publishing open data is a … Continue reading →

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Scraping the Scottish Election 2011

Posted on 31 March 2011 by ian

A colleague at work asked me today, “Where can I get the contact details of the local candidates for the Scottish Parliamentary Election 2011?” That’s easy, I thought. After a couple of hours digging tonight I have worked out that … Continue reading →

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NHTG11 – a personal reflection

Posted on 27 March 2011 by ian

Yesterday I spent nine and a half hours in a room with a group of hard-core coders and not only lived to tell the tale, but thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Firstly I should say thanks to Dr Bruce Scharlau of … Continue reading →

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Hack The Government Day – how will I participate?

Posted on 21 March 2011 by ian

This Saturday sees events to mark the third National Hack The Government Day. It will also be marked across the UK by events such as the one being run at Aberdeen University by Dr Bruce Scharlau. I’ve committed to going … Continue reading →

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