= Meeting 2014/08/02 =

== What ==

**Civic Tech, Open Data and Python** \\
by //Greg Kempe// ([https://twitter.com/longhotsummer @longhotsummer])

Using 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.

== When ==

2nd of August, 2014 at 14:00

== Where == 

* [wiki:AlexanderBar The Alexander Bar]. 

== Agenda ==

 * 14:00: Welcome, etc.
 * 14:15 "Civic Tech, Open Data and Python"
 * 15:30'ish: General housekeeping

== Next Meeting ==

The next meeting will be on the [wiki:Meeting20140913 13th of September, 2014]

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