by Pauline Cairns | Dec 14, 2021 | Open Data, Hackathon, Maps
‘Twas the 27th November, the day after Storm Arwen. We were in our homes huddled around our computer’s discussing the effects of the storm. But we couldn’t sitting around chatting all day as we had two days of hacking ahead of us at at Code...
by Pauline Cairns | Nov 8, 2021 | Open Data
Question: How do we demonstrate the value of open data? Response: Create some noise! The question was posed for a group discussion at the Scottish Open Data Unconference (SODU) conference held online in October 2021. We...
by Pauline Cairns | Oct 7, 2020 | Additional
img – use to advise that an image is to be rendered on the page src – contains the URL of the frame to which we are linking in the other webpage, or could point direct to a folder in on your computer or a cloud location. alt – use to describe an image...
by Pauline Cairns | Oct 4, 2020 | Websites, How to, Images
Glamis Castle, Scotland: Image by Rev Stan/Wikimedia You want to insert an image from WikiCommons onto a web page, it’s easy. All you need to do is copy and paste one line of code into the source html file. That’s it! Insert an image Open your existing...
by Pauline Cairns | Sep 28, 2020 | How to, PowerBI
This example shows how easy it is to plot items on a map using Power BI. With a few clicks data can be gathered, a map created, and markers plotted onto the map. Simple! Background The example involves using Open Data to plot monuments in Dundee (UK) onto a map using...
