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Using free tools to survey community groups and then perhaps combining that with open data. An example from BOSF, part 1 « Be Vocal

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A site about how community groups and charities can make the most of data and open data to do something useful. Focused on Birmingham, relevant everywhere. Using free tools to survey community groups and then perhaps combining that with open data. An example from BOSF, part 1. As part of the open data project at the Social Media Surgeries. We’ve been working with Birmingham Open Spaces Forum (BOSF). To help them we first need to know what data related problem. How to collect the data. After some discussi...

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Marcus Belben giving feedback and the Kings Heath and Moseley Open Data Surgery « Be Vocal

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A site about how community groups and charities can make the most of data and open data to do something useful. Focused on Birmingham, relevant everywhere. Marcus Belben giving feedback and the Kings Heath and Moseley Open Data Surgery. How easy is it to use open data – Surprisingly so, as Marcus Belben tells us after the Open Data Surgery in Kings Heath. Created under the Open Government License. March 11th, 2015 by Steph Clarke Posted in Open Data. Click here to cancel reply. You can use these tags:.

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Mashups « Be Vocal

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A site about how community groups and charities can make the most of data and open data to do something useful. Focused on Birmingham, relevant everywhere. Mashup is a very peculiar word for the business of making public information useful in new ways. There are basically two things you can do with public information that may help with your cause or in your neighbourhood. You can add the data to tools so you can see the information in new ways. This is known as visualisation. Britney’s visualisatio...

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Consistency and Collaboration for Data Collection around Niche areas of Commuunity « Be Vocal

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A site about how community groups and charities can make the most of data and open data to do something useful. Focused on Birmingham, relevant everywhere. Consistency and Collaboration for Data Collection around Niche areas of Commuunity. I wrote previously about standardisation of data collection. 8211; being consistent on how data is collected, but now I’ve come across an interesting issue, not HOW but WHAT data is collected. Groups collaborating in this way are making it easier for the LGBT community...

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How using better data and being better informed can get you more of what you need « Be Vocal

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A site about how community groups and charities can make the most of data and open data to do something useful. Focused on Birmingham, relevant everywhere. How using better data and being better informed can get you more of what you need. It matters when what you do changes something – this was a tweet from last month…. Ive asked officers to look again at 20 MPH for Brook Lane. Mdash; Lisa Trickett (@LisaTrickett41) March 21, 2015. Lisa Trickett is Marcus Belben’s local councillor. 2 (Me, Jago and Freya),.

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Police Crime Data for Improving the Perceptions of Safety in Communities « Be Vocal

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A site about how community groups and charities can make the most of data and open data to do something useful. Focused on Birmingham, relevant everywhere. Police Crime Data for Improving the Perceptions of Safety in Communities. At a recent Central Birmingham Social Media Surgery I met Maria Hughes from Birmingham LGBT. Birmingham LGBT work to support and sustain a vibrant, diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans community in Birmigham. We started by searching by area, in this instance Birmingham.

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Mapping people from Areas of Deprivation using Google Fusion tables « Be Vocal

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A site about how community groups and charities can make the most of data and open data to do something useful. Focused on Birmingham, relevant everywhere. Mapping people from Areas of Deprivation using Google Fusion tables. But how can they demonstrate this? Gateway wanted to be able to map 2 types of data, Where their employees come from and if they fall in an area of deprivation and then also what the employment status of those people were, whether they were Staff, Volunteer, Interpreter of Apprentice.

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Open Data « Be Vocal

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A site about how community groups and charities can make the most of data and open data to do something useful. Focused on Birmingham, relevant everywhere. Archive for the ‘Open Data’ Category. A open data surgery in Trafford. July 24th, 2015 by Nick Booth Posted in Open Data. Helping David Owen find the data he needs to make unattached playing fields in Birmingham more useful and more used.l. July 2nd, 2015 by Nick Booth Posted in Birmingham. This is a practical run through of something we picked up thr...

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Data Visualisation Tools for Community Groups « Be Vocal

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A site about how community groups and charities can make the most of data and open data to do something useful. Focused on Birmingham, relevant everywhere. Data Visualisation Tools for Community Groups. Whether you are collecting your own information or downloading open data sets to use, often what you end up with is a spreadsheet full of numbers. Unless you know what you are looking for these can be hard to decipher. Google spreadsheets is very much like excel where you can create charts from columns an...

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Using Open Data to Evidence Funding Applications « Be Vocal

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A site about how community groups and charities can make the most of data and open data to do something useful. Focused on Birmingham, relevant everywhere. Using Open Data to Evidence Funding Applications. Last week while working with BOSF. As I was showing the open data communities deprivation map when suddenly Emma had a light bulb moment. They have then mapped this data on http:/ opendatacommunities.org/showcase/deprivation. This one website has now made BOSF and Emma’s life much easier as now not onl...