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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.

about 4 inches off the ground
Joined January 2007
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📢 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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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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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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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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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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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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One of our young Windows on the World makers will be on @bbcwm at 10:15 tomorrow am talking about the project! #WotW
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#bornthisday Frances V. Spence (1922–2012), one of the original programmers for the ENIAC (the first digital computer) and considered one of the first computer programmers in history 💻 She's on the right here, operating the ENIAC's main control panel #womeninSTEM
Are you a technical speaker interested in topics or technologies that overlap with @mozilla's mission? @mozTechSpeakers is accepting applications. We're a volunteer program offering speaker training, travel funding support and more discourse.mozilla.org/t/appl…
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Tech folks whose work makes the world a better place to live in: can you tell us what you do and how you got into this work? RT for a larger, life-affirming dataset? 💖
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Thanks @adaslist for an outstandingly inspirational collaborative women in tech #adaslistconf on Sat. We've updated our "Explaining open data standards ... with cats" slides with more links - PDF here: drive.google.com/open?id=1C2… (apologies for the irony of sharing a PDF ...)
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Tech Twitter: Can you tell me about *how* you got your last job in tech? Personal contacts?🤝 Applied to an open position?💻 Necromancy?🔮 RT for reach? Would love to see (and show folks!) how people are finding jobs 👋
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We are hiring!! - Amazing work environment. - Work for good. Open data. - Transparency. No managers. - Equal pay. - Remote & flexible work.
We are hiring for an analyst role at Open Data Services Co-op. Read more about job, and how to apply: 👉opendataservices.coop/jobs/2… But what's it like to work as an open data standards consultant? Here's a thread to persuade you to apply! 1/n
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Really excited about @AdasList conf lineup. The talks look so cool, from women coders in conflict zones to open data standards with cats (!!), GraphQL, sex, Agile, weeknotes @pindec @humansdoingthings @stamanfar @hannathomas + more! GET YOUR TIX Nov. 9th! eventbrite.com/e/adas-list-c…
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dr pindec retweeted
👉 🐱 🖥️ The fantastic @opendatacoop duo of @pindec and Kadie Armstrong will be explaining #opendata standards with #cats on our #tech track next month on Nov 9th. Join us! #womenintech #adaslistconf #events 🎟️ Grab your ticket at buff.ly/2MAFztz
🚨🚨🚨We are hiring! 🚨🚨🚨 Data Standards Adoption Consultant opendataservices.coop/jobs/ Come and work in our supportive workers co-op on Open Data Standards that are improving the world.