Author Archives: Mark Braggins
Drawnalism Part 2 – the start of a journey
In this post my relationship with Drawnalism moves from ‘having a nice chat’, to us actually working together. Continue reading
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Drawnalism Part 1 – Knowledge Café
I have always been interested in the flow of information and knowledge. Why do some ideas sit inside a person’s head and go no further, whereas others catch the collective imagination and go on to influence thinking across the world? Continue reading
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Data for the Community: New research for Power to Change
Power To Change: empowering people Power to Change is an independent charitable trust that supports and develops community businesses in England. With an endowment of £150 million in 2015 from the Big Lottery Fund, Power to Change helps local people run … Continue reading
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Posted in Data, Open Data, Uncategorized
Tagged community, data, local data, open data, Power to Change, research
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Announcing Open Data Camp 5
This post was originally published on the Open Data Camp blog We are delighted to announce that Open Data Camp is returning once again. Open Data Camp 5 will be the weekend of 21/22 October at Queen’s University Belfast, in … Continue reading
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Revisiting ‘free’ Twitter reporting and analysis tools in 2016
In January 2012 I wrote Ten of my favourite reporting and analysis tools for Twitter. Lots of people commented and suggested their own favourites, so a couple of months later I wrote a follow-up, imaginatively entitled Ten (more) of my favourite reporting and … Continue reading
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Posted in Social Media, Technology, Twitter
Tagged Crowdfire, Hashtagify, Sentiment 140, social media, technology, tools, Trendsmap, Twazzup, Tweet Archivist, TweetReach, Twitter
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Pez Machines delivering self-driving cars, and other musings
This is the third instalment in a series of posts about transport in the future. The previous ones are: What does the future hold? [Transport] Thinking aloud: Back to the Future [of Transport] I have no idea how many I’ll write on this … Continue reading
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Posted in Technology, Transport, travel
Tagged Future Transport, Futurology, self-driving cars, transport, travel
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Thinking aloud: Back to the Future [of Transport]
A few days ago, I blogged: What does the future hold? [Transport], in which I began thinking aloud about what transport might look like in the future. It followed a Twitter conversation with John Murray and Caroline Robinson, and was prompted by Rob Price‘s article in … Continue reading
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Posted in Transport, travel
Tagged Futurology, Hyperloop, public transport, self-driving cars, transport
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What does the future hold? [Transport]
John Murray shared an interesting article this morning Aggressive drivers are going to bully self-driving cars https://t.co/PQelE0nvAV via @sai — John Murray (@MurrayData) October 23, 2016 The gist of the article is that – whilst autonomous vehicles can be instructed to take … Continue reading
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Posted in Technology, Transport, travel, weekly blog club
Tagged Futurology, public transport, self-driving cars, transport, travel
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Thoughts about Talk About Local #TAL16
Last Saturday I left the house in the dark, and caught the first available bus. It had to be something good to get me out of bed that early in the morning at a weekend. It was… Guess where I am today? #TAL16 … Continue reading
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A look back at Open Data Camp 3: After the Watershed
This post was first published on the Open Data Camp blog. It’s several weeks since the third UK Open Data Camp. In case that means nothing to you: Camp ‘Camp’ is a term commonly used to refer to an ‘unconference’, which … Continue reading
