Glad I caught the typo in the copy I was writing.
No one wants to read about "data sharting"
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That list is alike a potted history of recent uk tech hype.
The lack of a blockchain or VR based solution are signs of a missed soundbite for someone.
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https://www.gov.uk/government/news/transport-secretary-pledges-to-fix-pothole-plague-as-she-sees-cutting-edge-repair-technology-in-action-on-blackpool-visit
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/multimillion-pound-initiative-to-improve-local-roads-across-england
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-accelerating-pothole-mapping-project-to-support-motorists-and-cyclists-ahead-of-school-return
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-improve-road-journeys-across-the-country-with-93-million-investment-and-cutting-edge-transport-tech
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/highways-englands-intelligent-network-of-the-future
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-backs-smartphone-app-to-pinpoint-potholes
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Tech to fix potholes, a brief incomplete history:
2025, AI obviously
2024, "Advanced Imagery System"
2021, "Drones and 3D printing"
2020, "Data from Uber and Deliveroo"
2020, "An AI app for cyclists"
2017, "Cars of the future"
2013, "A smartphone app for cyclists"
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Getting through the week like
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“Culture Facts” has grown rather a lot over the years; it’s beginning to look a bit fan-tastic itself. I only started it because I kept forgetting what colour the drones’ aura fields turn when they were being sarcastic and I got fed up having to leaf through the aforesaid earlier novels."
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Learned earlier that Banks had a file called "Culture Facts" on his computer*. Man, I would love to see that.
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Love this data analysis of horror movies. I've watched a lot of them this year, so interesting to know that there are more of them than ever
More at: https://horrormoviereport.com/
https://stephenfollows.com/p/13-ways-the-horror-genre-has-radically
[#]movies #horror #dataviz
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Finally deactivated my twitter account. Originally created 22nd November 2006, during my lunch break based on the timestamp. Haven't really used it in ages anyway.
If you see an ldodds over there, it won't be me.
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Going to be a while until I shake off the "you woke up in the wrong stub" feeling
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Save money and energy by cancelling unnecessary Github Actions. We applied this to our codebase today.
https://turso.tech/blog/simple-trick-to-save-environment-and-money-when-using-github-actions
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In a few short hours the next US election campaign will begin.
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Expired: Everything happens for reason
Tired: Everything happens so much
Wired: Everything is happening all at once
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What does community-driven data governance look like?
Some idle thoughts for a Friday afternoon. I was just taking a look at Source.Plus a dataset of public domain images for training Foundation models. It's a project of Spawning.ai which is working to build "data governance for generative AI". I have some thoughts on the tools they're building, but that's not what I'm writing about here. It was this statement which caught my attention: "
http://blog.ldodds.com/2024/11/01/what-does-community-driven-data-governance-look-like/
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Old man shouts at csvs
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A slightly more coherent version of this thread from when I got frustrated about this earlier in the year.
Keep talking myself out actually trying to gather some consensus around a standard, because I've got a million other things to prioritise.
https://blog.ldodds.com/2024/03/02/data-format-design-is-a-ux-issue/
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One major energy supplier updated their portal recently to state that they make no guarantees that any data they provide is in any way accurate. Excellent work
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I'm talking here about metered gas and electricity data.
There's even less consensus around access to data from other sources. Solar systems are slightly more likely to have APIs but no standardisation there either. And those aren't covered by that policy change.
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A big driver for that increase has been the recent policy change that requires energy companies to provide non-domestic customers with access to data.
Its now slightly easier to get access to data. But in a flurry formats produced by a range of new and updated portals. No coordination in sector.
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I'm so tired of dealing with Yet Another Format for energy data.
In 2021 I wrote about how we were dealing with roughly 24 ever so slightly different formats. Well, that has gone up now and we're handling more than 70 and new formats appearing every week.
https://blog.ldodds.com/2021/07/12/24-different-tabular-formats-for-half-hourly-energy-data/
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