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From: Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>
Date: 2013/3/20
Subject: [School-of-data-announce] The latest from School of Data
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Howdy all,

In case you missed it, here's a quick roundup of recent happenings from the School of Data. Info on what we've been up to and how you can get involved...

# Interested in leading a Data Expedition?

Data expeditions are learning through exploration. We're working to launch a new round of data expeditions in the next few months.

Are you interested in working closely with journalists and NGOs to help them use data to work through a problem?

We're looking for a good facilitators to lead expeditions on topics they care about around the world. We'll give you training and support throughout the process.

If you'd like to find out more about being an expedition lead and how people can learn from expeditions, I'll be holding a Google Hangout Q & A session on Friday 22nd March at 15:00 UTC (11:00 EDT, 16:00 Central European Time). Can't make this, but still interested in finding out more? Let me know.

For an invite to the Hangout, please either email me directly, or register your interest in leading an expedition here: http://bit.ly/14c1WcJ

More about data expeditions can be found here: http://schoolofdata.org/data-expeditions/

# News

A big welcome to Tony Hirst (@psychemedia on Twitter) - who joined the school last week as our Data Storyteller.

# Events

* We're building up to our first pilot Wrangling for Watchdogs workshop on 26th & 27th March in Berlin with Central and Eastern European Watchdog organisations. Find out more: http://bit.ly/1604jgM . We hope to do more of these in the future, so if you know of organisations who could benefit from this, please do get in touch!

* For anyone in Berlin on 26th March- we're also holding a 'Wrangling for Watchdogs' meetupfrom 6-8pm in Supermarkt, Brunnenstrasse 64. Techies, NGOs, artists and interested observers are welcome to join us us for lightning talks, drinks and ideas exchange on how we can bring these worlds closer. More info here: http://bit.ly/1604hp7

* We'll also be headed to Perugia, Italy for the second edition of the School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival. In the area? Join us there! Read more: http://bit.ly/13b6Ff5

## From the blog

* Today is the launch of the Charting for Progress project from Development Initiatives. There's some beautiful and clear charts aiming to show the current data-based-thinking answers to questions such as "When is poverty going to end? How many donors are reaching the 0.7% target? How much does the UK spend on aid?" Read more: http://bit.ly/1605CMH

* The weekly data roundup by Neil Ashton included the latest events and news from around the data world. http://bit.ly/1605OLQ

* Tony Hirst put together a great guide for how to use the network analysis mapping tool, Gephi. Running it on the Twitter accounts of some of the best funded climate change denial think-tanks, he tested whether money turned into influence on Social Media... http://bit.ly/16062CW