Open Data

Follow along practical example – In an R script upload a spreadsheet, manipulate the data by removing column/variable, change variable name, and pivot columns, and then producing a bar chart.

Follow along practical example – In an R script upload a spreadsheet, manipulate the data by pivoting columns, and then producing a line chart with data points.

How are Scottish companies and organisations using open data? What data originating in Scotland has been made open to the world? Questions posed at SODU2020

This example shows how easy it is to insert Wikipedia extracts into a Power BI report using the Wikimedia API.

Discovering interesting images in Wikimedia made available by Aberdeen Archives, Museums and Galleries which have then been displayed in Power BI

This example shows how easy it is to insert Wikipedia extracts into a Power BI report using the Wikimedia API.

Did you know that you can track the location of vessels? All you need is the AIS data transmitted by the vessel.

At CTC Hackathon in November 2021 the Waste Wizards team helped plot Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRC) and their facilities on Open Waste Map. 

Hackathon – using open data to map Scottish Shipwrecks