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Georgie Burr

Georgie Burr

An update on the workings of community building around political data and the paradox of simplicity

This is mostly taken from my post on the mySociety page , except for the cheesy quote picture, which I have decided I really like because…

Aug 22, 2018

An update on the workings of community building around political data and the paradox of simplicity

Aug 22, 2018

Georgie Burr

Wikidata’s content: What data on politicians already exists for any country ?

On a regular basis, I make contact with people to talk about collecting and using data on politicians. As part of our conversation, I…

Jul 19, 2018

Jul 19, 2018

Georgie Burr

Rip it up and start again (sort of )

I have been attempting to document what the Dev team have been busy doing as they develop the ‘Scraper to Wikidata via validity check’…

Jul 13, 2018

Rip it up and start again (sort of )

Jul 13, 2018

Georgie Burr

Toes in the Agile pond: week 1

I am currently attending the daily standup as the mySociety team develop the tool I am referring to as:‘Scraper to Wikidata via validity…

Jul 2, 2018

Jul 2, 2018

Georgie Burr

mySociety, Wikidata, Facebook and me: Developing tools that could deepen freely available data on…

As one of two newly appointed ‘Community Liaisons’ at mySociety, my role is largely to focus on making Wikidata the leading source of data…

Jun 28, 2018

Jun 28, 2018

Georgie Burr

Welcome Kelly, my Community Compadre

In the last few weeks I have been feeling excited as I settle in to working alongside mySociety’s newest member of staff — and my fellow…

Jun 28, 2018

Jun 28, 2018

Georgie Burr

Sharing is caring

Today marks the 20 and a half day since I started working at ‘My Society’ as the Community Manager for the ‘Democratic Commons’. A concept…

Jun 15, 2018

Jun 15, 2018

Georgie Burr

Georgie Burr

Documenting my experience of working with people and orgs across the world to gather and improve the data on elected politicians on Wikidata. Learning a lot!

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