Year: 2025
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Book review: Storytelling with data – Before and After by Knaflic, Cisneros and Velez
I recently reviewed Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic’s Storytelling with data, as a result the Storytelling team sent me a (pre-publication) copy of their latest book, Storytelling with Data – Before and After by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, Mike Cisneros and Alex Velez. It is scheduled for publication on 15th September 2025. I must admit my first thought…
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hdx-cli-toolkit – a tool to examine and update metadata in the Humanitarian Data Exchange
This post introduces the hdx-cli-toolkit – a tool written in Python to examine and update metadata in the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) which is based on the CKAN data catalogue. HDX is a project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA). It is a data catalogue focussed on sharing data relevant…
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Using APIs with Excel and Power BI
Introduction to APIs Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are a standard way for computers to communicate with each other. In this article I am going to show how to use Power Query to access data sources on the web via APIs. Power Query is a feature available in versions of the Excel desktop app after 2016…
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Welcome
Welcome to Deva Data! I’m your host, Dr Ian Hopkinson. I’ve worked as a scientist for the last 30 years, at various universities, a large home and personal care company, a startup in Liverpool called The Sensible Code Company (formerly ScraperWiki Ltd), GBG and now as a consultant in data science. The site logo is…
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Rosetta Stone – Rust
In an earlier blog post I explained the motivation for a series of “Rosetta Stone” posts which described the ecosystem for different programming languages. This post covers Rust, the associated GitHub repository with some minimal code is here. This blog post aims to provide some discussion around technology choices whilst the GitHub repository provides details…
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