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    11= Meeting 2014/08/02 =
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     3== What ==
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     5**Civic Tech, Open Data and Python** \\
     6by //Greg Kempe//
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     8Using Python, open data and just a touch of machine learning to help civic organisations help themselves. In this talk I describe two applications we built for for Media Monitoring Africa. Dexter is a processing platform for analysing articles in the media and was used to build MMA’s report of the 2014 National Elections. [http://wazimap.co.za Wazimap] is a tool for journalists (and everyone else) to understand their country, province, municipality and ward through visualising data from the 2011 census.
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    1017[wiki:PraekeltOffice Praekelt Offices].
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    12 == What ==
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    14  * Greg Kempe has offered a talk.