Karen Jewell
Data Scientist and Maintainer of Open Data Scotland
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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By weekday, Karen is a Senior Analyst at Forecast, a data consultancy specialising in commercial decision tools and solutions. By the evenings and weekends, Karen is a maintainer of the Open Data Scotland project and trustee of the charity CodeTheCity. New to the Open Source scene but with over a decade of experience using data to solve organisational challenges and in building decision support systems, she often finds lessons to share across her professional and volunteer careers.
Karen graduated from the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen with a BA in Business Management and a MSc in Data Science, and continues to study a BSc in Mathematics and Statistics with the Open University.
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Open Data Scotland: A resource for community, built by community
Open Data Scotland (opendata.scot) is an open-source, collaborative, and volunteer run project which lists the largest collection of open data in Scotland (1500+ datasets), provides analysis of the open data landscape and helps promote other projects which use this open data. All of this is to help the public understand what Open Data is available in Scotland.
The project is completely volunteer-built and maintained, and we encourage amateurs and hobbyists to build integral parts of the service because it is a service for community, built by the community.
In this session, we introduce opendata.scot as a resource for local data consumers, why Open Data is important and how it can be used, but also to share how anyone could get involved in the project no matter their technical capability or availability.
Learnings from Navigating Scotland’s Open Data Landscape
opendata.scot is a volunteer collaborative currently listing 1500+ datasets which is the largest known collection of open data in Scotland. This session shares some of the things we learnt from doing that.
Karen Jewell
Data Scientist and Maintainer of Open Data Scotland
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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