Karen Jewell
Data Scientist and Maintainer
Open Data Scotland
Learnings from Navigating Scotland’s Open Data Landscape
Open Data
Wednesday, February 8 • 11:00am-11:35am GMT
St. James, 4th Floor
Learnings from Navigating Scotland’s Open Data Landscape
opendata.scot is a volunteer collaborative currently listing 1500+ datasets which is the largest known collection of open data in Scotland. This session shares some of the things we learnt from doing that.
Bio
By weekday, Karen is a Senior Analyst in a data consultancy specialising in commercial decision tools and solutions; by evenings and weekends, Karen is a maintainer of the Open Data Scotland project and trustee of the charity CodeTheCity. New to the Open Source scene but with over a decade of experience using data to solve organisational challenges and in building decision support systems, she often finds lessons to share across her professional and volunteer careers.
Karen graduated from the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen with a BA in Business Management and a MSc in Data Science, and continues to study a BSc in Mathematics and Statistics with the Open University.