Exploring Open Data Scotland
26 September 2023
69 attendees
Speakers and topics
Exploring Open Data Scotland and Example Projects
Jack Gilmore, Senior Developer @ NES | Technical lead @ Open Data Scotland
Open Data Scotland is an open-source, collaborative, and volunteer run project which helps people locate and understand Open Data in Scotland better. The project which emerged from a weekend hack event at Code The City 23 has now been in operation for over 2 years and involves pulling data from various data sources; cleaning, processing and collating the data into a standardised store; then publishing the data to an interactive frontend, along with hosted data visualisations. All of this is to help the public understand what Open Data is available in Scotland.
Speaker bios
Jack Gilmore
Jack Gilmore is a full stack software developer with experience of working in the public sector and academia in Scotland. He graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Computing Science and Spanish from the University of Stirling in 2019. As an advocate of free and open-source software, many of the projects he has worked on either consume or produce open data. Most recently, he has been involved as the co-founder of the Open Data Scotland project, working on