data 076 #activitywatch Visualising my quantified computing while ruminating on the state of data culture.
data 063 #amld2020 #mobility The Applied Machine Learning Days are back at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology of Lausanne for the fourth time. A five-day extravaganza took place with 31 hands-on sessions, 29 tracks of presentations, over 2'500 visitors. And 1 very important virtual speaker, Edward Snowden. Excellent in-depth coverage was
data 042 #openrevolution The fourty second post summarizes my activities of the past years since this blog was started, with an outlook on summer plans.
data 027 #foodopendata To those who joined our 1st School of Data workshop of the year, spending part of last weekend to explore food-related datasets with us - you were an awesome group to work with, thanks for coming! To everyone else, you can still plug into our effort: keep reading to find
data 026 #dataart #publicspace transform is an "interdisciplinary project with consequences", in which a group of art-ivists has once again temporarily changed a rather humdrum part of the city into a vibrant meeting place of culture. We took part in their opening weekend with a data art contribution consequent to our local
data 023 #climathon The Climathon is a global 24-hour hackathon which takes place simultaneously in multiple cities around the world. On October 28, 2016, the City of Zurich provided challenges related to local energy, food and climate change adaptation problems. The event Opendata.ch helped to run was organised by the team at
data 022 #H4AW At the end of September, we supported Hack For Ageing Well, a two-day hackathon organised by Opendata.ch in partnership with AAL Association for projects that aim to improve conditions of life for older adults through the use of information and communication technology, and where teams will be coached and
data 020 #glamhack Photo by Axel Pettersson (Own work) CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The 2nd Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon at the beginning of July was two days of fun, innovation and digitally enhanced brainstorming hosted by the University library in Basel. Over a hundred people who appreciate Galleries, Libraries,
data 019 #opendatach unconference In parallel to the Opendata.ch Conference on Tuesday at Casino de Montbenon in Lausanne, we ran a participant-driven (BarCamp-style) unconference track. Ideas for brief talks and meetup topics were suggested online and posted the morning of the conference on a board. Photography by Nicolas Fojtu, licensed CC BY 4.
data 018 #opendatach keynotes Quotes and impressions from the morning of the annual Swiss event dedicated to Open Data. About visions, realities and things in-between. Photography by Nicolas Fojtu, licensed CC BY 4.0. See also links to the slideshows (opendata.ch) and Oleg's post with unconference highlights. #people #machines #algorithms «Imagine
data 015 #expedition At the beginning of May we got together for a two day Data Expedition, a meetup about exploring data sources, learning skills and starting projects as a group, along the guidelines proposed by the School of Data. We did this at Warmbächli, a community redevelopment project to transform an old
data 013 #energy [TL;DR] The Open Energy Data Hackdays that took place on April 8+9, 2016 resulted in 8 new energy projects. This blog talks about a pre-hackdays workshop in Bern where we discussed topics and platforms, and shares some background and outlook on open energy data. Energy is on our
data 008 #geodata @loleg and @sfkeller ran a workshop last week on using open data and open source for geographical applications (often referred to as GIS) at the 9th Swiss UNIGIS conference (full program in German). For people looking for a good way to start doing GIS with open source & open standards,
data 004 #research The past weeks were busy for all of us involved with the Open Research Hackdays, initiated by a consortium of Swiss academic institutions and organized by Opendata.ch. From the hackdays, we hoped to learn a bit more about what issues people working in science (and those supporting them) have
data 003 #weather Time for a fresh weekly update. Many thanks for the inputs this week, especially valued feedback on our draft concept and data literacy topics from Julius, David, JP and Ralph. Also a warm welcome to Timo who recently joined. Our last call was on a freezing Friday, just days prior
data A gentle introduction to Pandas with Python I made this presentation for a PyZürich meetup. It serves as a brief introduction to loading and processing data with Pandas, the open source Data Analysis Library for Python. You can get a copy of the iPython notebook and the open data used here: http://bit.ly/pyzurich-04092014 Also check
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