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David Kane

@dkane.net

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Independent data scientist. Picture is a homemade Dalek. Mostly talk about charities, data and charity data.

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

On the topic of the Bank Holidays API, it may well be the most quintessentially British API in existence, with a boolean (true/false) value for "bunting". And, in case you were wondering, every bank holiday is a good day for bunting unless someone died for our sins! www.api.gov.uk/gds/bank-hol...

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Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Are you an API person? Are there some APIs that you ❤️ and others that drive you 😠? If yes to any of the above, please take a minute to respond to (and share!) this quick anonymous survey. You're also welcome to share your thoughts and ideas on this thread...

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David Kane @dkane.net · 13/03/2025

An excellent part of this, which is often missing from big data releases, is a small set of sample data in the same format. Let's you see and test the data without needing to manage huge files.

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David Kane @dkane.net · 07/10/2024

New long, technical blog post - why django is my tool of choice for data pipelines dkane.net/2024/why-pos...

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Why PostgreSQL + Django is my data pipeline of choice | David Kane

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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com · 03/10/2024

Some news about Data Bites… After 5 years, 49 events, 199 presenters, five PMs, 10 Cabinet ministers for data in govt & more bad jokes than any of us would care to remember, Data Bites is leaving @instituteforgov.bsky.social I’m delighted to say it has a new home at… @publicdigital.bsky.social!

An image - bright pink dots on light pink background, with dark grey text reading

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https://public.digital/data-bites-series

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David Kane @dkane.net · 03/10/2024

At the London Civic Data Innovation showcase - great insights from James Bowles based on the evaluation of the projects

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David Kane @dkane.net · 02/10/2024

Interesting use of linking data from different sources. Although there's a small number of organisations on the gender pay gap list that give their employee numbers as "Less than 250" (presumably reporting voluntarily?)

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James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Been doing some digging into charity data today and the gaps are quite something. We have no reliable mesaures for the contribution volunteering makes or for its significance in various sectors. h/t @dkane.net for sharing this link. 1/ www.probonoeconomics.com/taking-accou...

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"So while we know that manufacturing accounts for 8% of the UK workforce and agriculture accounts for 0.6% gross value added to the UK economy – we have no equivalent ONS figures for the social economy and volunteering sector.

Similarly, we have no idea what proportion of different industries, like education or health & social care, are made up of non-profit organisations, nor how much of the employment in each industry depends on a thriving non-profit sector. And we have little grasp of how much value volunteering brings to our economy each year."

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David Kane @dkane.net · 06/09/2024

Thought I should do an intro... Hi, I'm David and I help people use and improve data about charities. I'm a freelance researcher, developer, analyst, working with charities, govt and other companies. There's more about my work on kanedata.co.uk

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Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com · 03/09/2024

I'd like to chat with a few people working in local public bodies eg local authorities, NHS trusts, academy trusts, police forces, about working with local communities around data/digital stuff, and what kind of support would be helpful. Is that you or can you recommend someone?

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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com · 22/08/2024

Bluesky hive mind! Does anyone know of a decent, free or *very* cheap venue: - In SW1 (Whitehall/Westminster) - Fits c.40 people - Either A/V or good wifi (Idea is a monthly evening meet-up for people into public sector reform, UKGovCamp-y/OneTeamGov-y vibes, a couple of talks, chat, pizza etc)

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