Nottingham, 13 October 2010

From the announcement (via Guardian data blog):

"The past few months have seen a number of high profile announcements on the release of central and local government data for free. The Prime Minister launched the data.gov.uk portal to 'open up data and promote transparency' and the London Mayor announced the London Data Store to 'give Londoners the change to find out more about how the city is run'. There is great excitement in the developer community and many new mash-ups and apps have been produced from the released data already."

Nottingham University is now organizing "a series of free one-day Open Data Master Classes to reach a wide cross section of people (i.e., individuals, communities, grassroots organizations, NGOs to civil servants and professionals) who can benefit from a greater understanding of the opportunities around open data. Specifically, the one-day master class will provide individuals with the tools and techniques needed to use and analysis a range of Open Datasets that are of relevance and interest to them such as, for example, school census data, health care provision, crime statistics and transportation data".

The Open Data Master Classes series starts in November at the University of Newcastle (8th Nov) before moving on to University College London (10th Nov), Nottingham University (12th Nov), University of Aberdeen (17th Nov), Royal Geographical Society London (18th Nov) and University of Southampton (3rd Dec) and for each session there is room for 30 to 40 participants.

Links for registering for the various sessions can be found in the announcement on Nottingham University's website.

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