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Research and development opportunity

May 21, 2013 in research and development by Carl

Writing West Midlands and bITjAM are seeking a research partner to work on a research and development project for which we are seeking funding through the NESTA Digital R&D fund. We want to research and develop Thanx, an audience development toolbox with a membership and loyalty scheme interface for the arts and cultural sector. Thanx will allow organisations to capture, process and analyse audience data, trends and patterns. The data will provide the organisation with meaningful insights and intelligence that can be used to create offers and rewards that will help retain, broaden and deepen engagement, a business need shared
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Stoke on Trent Opendata Hackathon

January 25, 2013 in hacking, Node, projects by Carl

23rd February 20139am-10pm Opendata Hackathon YMCA Hanley Stoke on Trent We are holding a special one off Hackathon as part of the International Opendata day. We plan to bring together the finest creative minds in the area and develop something exciting using open data. We plan to hack together an ‘interactive something’ that uses open data to trigger cool things, that could be audio, visual or hardware. This could be using a hacked Kinect sensor to naviagte a map application that when someone interacts it triggers audio or something way much better than that. The hack session will be a
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Data scraping and data to intelligence

January 9, 2013 in data visualisation by Carl

Those of you who have read some of my blog or met me in person have heard me talk about the importance of the web and how digital content is valuable stuff for organisations. My personal blog has many examples of my work turning data into maps, charts and graphs. I wanted to put a few words together to raise awareness of the value found in harnessing information in the form of data, you know the stuff in spreadsheets, databases, even in social networks. Every organisation will be producing data in some form, from spending, ticket offices data through to
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