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Data_Roundup_2014_(School_of_Data

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The School of Data Roundup is a collection of articles and snippets around the use and learning of data skills globally. This blog series captures a summary of great things that we've read or recommend in the week.
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School of Data Roundup - Week of June 1, 2014
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How  can the development, communications and social media  fields to offer simple, "Tweetable" suggestions for how the policy  community can become better communicators.

http://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2014/may/27/open-government-data-online-impenetrable?CMP=twt_gu



The MOOC continues https://twitter.com/InternewsKE/status/472038443359682561

 
Philippines impact of Training
http://opinion.inquirer.net/75158/data-journalism-empowering-public


The Personal Democracy Forum was held in New York on June 5 - 6, 2014. All the videos wil be available soon. One of the sessions highlighted this work using public data to show economic decline and community building
https://whydontweownthis.com/#4/37.06/-95.89

http://www.timetoendblight.com/
http://personaldemocracy.com/conferences/nyc/2014



http://ifweweresyrian.org/#!/uk

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/05/upshot/how-the-recession-reshaped-the-economy-in-255-charts.html?_r=0

Boston Transit data https://mbtaviz.github.io/ 

The World Cup of everything else http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/WORLDCUPTOEE/#/?lang=en&metrics=Population 

https://visualisingadvocacy.org/blog/data-part-truth-part-lie - article on the pitfalls/problems/inaccuracies of collecting data on sexual violence in conflict