Wrangler of data science, QA incl GenAI, open data, standards, habits, tech behaviour change, cats, coffee. Now: UKHSA. Then: Open Data Services co-op, PhD.
Joined January 2007
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Assembling slides for a talk about Open Data Standards and why they're awesome, needed a fictional person as an example, went with little Bobby Tables :) xkcd.com/327/
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My friend Stephen is a horological genius, and here's his ace talk on what drives him to magic up new watch mechanisms, including why he doesn't enjoy it much despite winning the watch oscars, the joy/pain of detail and sewage pumping stations youtube.com/live/J1xQWripjPI…
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Turns out if you buy a lovely print from Kate at thecraftybrum.com you also get a beautiful hand written message :)
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Go work *with* not *for* these lovely people if you want interesting, ethical "data for good" work. It's a co-op so you get to co-own and co-run the company with profit sharing and a flat hierarchy! ❤️
12 Aug 2022
We're hiring!
Join our team to help make open data useful, usable and in use.
🟣Partnership Lead: Health, Social & Physical Activity Data
app.beapplied.com/apply/bz82…
But what's it like to work at Open Data Services?
Here's a thread about our co-op to tempt you to join!
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dr pindec retweeted
16 Jul 2021
📢 We're hiring!
We’re looking data analysts to provide open data publisher support. You will work with a wide variety of organisations to help them publish and use open data using specific open data standards.
Head to our jobs page for more details 👇
opendataservices.coop/jobs/
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dr pindec retweeted
1 Jul 2021
It’s #CoopFortnight! This year @CooperativesUK are encouraging people to #JoinACoop.
We'll be hiring soon – so sign up to our jobs newsletter and we’ll keep you in the loop when we publish new opportunities to join our co-operative.
opendatacoop.medium.com/head…
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Fantastic work all! It's been great over the past few months to collaborate with Presidential Hackathon teams across the world to get them up and running with OCDS & OC4IDS.
18 Sep 2020
We're proud to announce the winners of this year's Presidential Hackathon: @CivicDatalab from India and Learning Man from Taiwan have developed innovative projects for transparency in health procurement & social housing. More open-contracting.org/news/te… #opencontracting #SDGs #UNGA
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dr pindec retweeted
11 Sep 2020
Pleased to see National Data Strategy flags forthcoming work on data standards across govt. 3 open data standards we work on (OCDS, IATI & 360Giving) are now official UK govt data standards. We look forward to feeding in more to the strategy gov.uk/government/consultati…. (by @pindec)
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dr pindec retweeted
8 May 2020
Hello (lovely) nerds. I'm trying to build a list of tech companies and projects that are doing non-evil, actively good things.
Tell me about some?
Also, RT for a bigger sample set, if it's not a bother 💖
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dr pindec retweeted
7 May 2020
For community data projects to be useful, we need to think about the challenges they face: getting good data and keeping it fresh.
@jarofgreen has shared his tips for doing this work well 👇
medium.com/opendatacoop/chal…
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dr pindec retweeted
1 May 2020
ODSC wish to extend a happy International Workers Day to all :-) We have been a worker-owned organisation from the very start and we've recently turned five! Check out our birthday blog post to learn more about our journey: medium.com/opendatacoop/open…
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South Brummies, get your bike tuned up to take some safe exercise in the weeks ahead! Pop down to the excellent @BikeFoundry co-op in Stirchley. They'll meet you outside to keep social distance & sort your bike expertly and speedily. "Solidarity in separation" :).
dr pindec retweeted
18 Mar 2020
Here's everything you need to know about how to join us live online for #TICTeC next week. Please spread the word! mysociety.org/2020/03/18/tic…
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2 zero waste plastic- and panic-free shops (Digbeth & Bournville) open in Birmingham with sensible precautions and plenty of stock :). Just remember to take your containers and wash your hands on way in!
15 Mar 2020
Thank you to all our customers for staying calm and not panic buying. 💚
We have added extra precautionary measures during this current period - please see our Facebook post for more details! facebook.com/719589581561370…
