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Speaker Presentations: Tony Hirst and data mashing

In the data mashing session at news:rewired, Open University lecturer Tony Hirst presented on ‘Playing with data – all you need is glue’. It was a fascinating talk with lots of practical detail. You can find more data teaching resources on his blog ouseful.info.

Some of the online tools he mentioned: Many Eyes Wikified, Yahoo Pipes, Dabble DB, Google Fusion Tables, the Guardian data store, and GeoCommons.

Tony encourages anyone with any questions to get in touch: via email – a.j.hirst@open.ac.uk, @psychemedia on Twitter or his blog.

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