Monthly Archives: April 2016

Epimorphics at Open Data Camp 3

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An Open Data Camp in Bristol? We’d be mad to miss it.

At Epimorphics we’re really excited to see the Open Data Camp journey come to the connected digital city so close to our home, we are so excited that we are happy to be sponsoring and supporting the visit.

Some of us are ODCamp newbies, but the last 6+ years has shown that open data is part of our DNA, for example we’ve been working on exciting projects with others such as the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, Land Registry and Companies House to get their open data out there, accessible and usable as linked open data. We’re looking forward to meeting and chatting with some kindred spirits.

A handful of Epimorphs will be around at Open Data Camp 3, so if you have a particular interest in open data about water quality at beaches and elsewhere, river levels and flood alerts, house prices and indices or company profiles – do seek us out and we’ll be very happy to help you get going. Or maybe you’ve got some data of you’re own and would like to breath some life into some lifeless URIs we can introduce you to some of open-source tools we use or make.

Looking forward to seeing you all in Bristol and learning and sharing ideas.

Bristol 10K road closures

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As has been previously mentioned, the Sunday of ODCamp 3 coincides with the Bristol 10K run. This means that there are going to be a number of road closures around Bristol City Centre and some considerable disruption to travel.

Full details of the road closures can be downloaded as a pdf from http://grimages.blob.core.windows.net/blobgrimages1/documents/2016-04-06-Great_Bristol_10k___road_closure_guide.pdf

Unfortunately for us, Waterside is in the most heavily affected part of the city. We are in communication with the event organizers to get details of where the course crossing points will be and we will pass that information on as soon as we have it. The best advice we can give is to allow extra time to get to the venue on Sunday and if at all possible, don’t drive in to the city on Sunday.

Update: April 27, 2016
Details of the course crossing points can be downloaded from https://www.odcamp.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Great_Bristol_10k_Crossing_Points.pdf
Crossings 1, 2, 3 and 4 are going to be the ones of most interest to those of us making our way to the venue on Sunday morning.

Swirrl at Open Data Camp 3

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We’re happy to say Swirrl is once again sponsoring Open Data Camp as it heads towards Bristol for its next leg.

It’s our favourite conference on data: attracting a crowd of people who are enthusiastic and knowledgeable about what they do, exchanging ideas and news in a relaxed atmosphere.

We’re grateful to the team of volunteer organisers (see the Eventbrite page for a list – thanks all!) for all their efforts to put on these events, and we’re glad to help by putting in some money towards the costs.

Our CEO, Bill Roberts, will be there and keen to talk about publishing, connecting and analysing open data, making better use of statistical data in the public sector, connecting up satellite data to the web, and more.

Looking forward to seeing you in Bristol!

(PS: if you like Open Data Camp, you’ll probably also like the Data-Driven Decisions event that Swirrl is running in Manchester on 26 May 2016. Tickets now available! Tickets are free, but we’re asking for donations to Manchester Coder Dojo, helping inspire and educate our next generation of technologists.)