May 12The Global Data Barometer first edition Released — Part 1State of the data in the MENA Region The first edition of the global data barometer have just been released yesterday, a zoom webinar took place yesterday to introduce results of this first edition and talk about this amazing new experience. I was honored to work in this edition as…Global Data Barometer8 min read
Feb 3, 2020WebUSB is deadTwo years ago I started playing with WebUSB, a web API to connect hardware to the Web. The idea was crazy, especially that there is already an implementation supported by Chrome, but… unfortunately only few experiments worked fine. The same experiments that I saw two years ago. Due to the…Webusb2 min read
Apr 25, 2018Opening Up 2018 Tunisian Municipality Elections Data — Part 2Just after publishing my first post converting Candidates lists in the 2018 Tunisian municipality elections from PDF to CSV, ISIE published candidates names lists ! More data ! This time it’s all in XLSX format ! Sounds good ? Not at all, I need to get all these files into…Data Science4 min read
Apr 25, 2018Opening Up 2018 Tunisian Municipality Elections Data — Part 1Publishing elections data in closed format become very common, in case any data have been published. Few days from the municipal elections we are still worried if it is going really to happen or not. Efforts come as usual from civil society and private sector to open up data and…Data Science3 min read
Oct 25, 2017The power of Commodity HardwareIn this new era of Big Data, the term commodity hardware became very common, but it’s up to you to define how to use it. The term commodity hardware in general mean Computer hardware that is affordable and easy to obtain. …Docker3 min read
Aug 15, 2016Sharing Economy en Tunisie, Analyse des données AirbnbJe ne suis pas vraiment fan de Airbnb mais j’avoue que j’aime bien le concept et ça me tente d’utiliser ce genre de service surtout si le rapport qualité prix est très compétitif. …Sharing Economy3 min read
Apr 24, 2016#ODBarometer, how to turn 66% of Government data into OpenData ?First alarming result from the third edition of the Open Data Barometer is that only 10% of government data is available as Open Data, while 76.3% of these data is available online ! So, what’s missing to turn at least 60% of government data into Open Data ? …Open Data4 min read
Apr 12, 2016Opening up company registers, then what ? #ODBarometerThe Web Foundation published yesterday a sneak preview on the 3rd edition of the Open Data Barometer mainly related to the latest #PanamaPapers leak and the status of Open Data company register worldwide. The full barometer however will be fully published by April 21st. According to the data published, we…Open Data4 min read
