Flipside joins Development Seed
We’re happy to announce that, starting today, our team will be joining Development Seed. This is a big move for...
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Open Data Happy Hour
Next Thursday we are hosting an Open Data Happy Hour, the first of a series of Open Data related events...
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Clean energy investment in emerging markets
The clean energy sector in emerging markets shows great potential to attract investment. Information is key to make good decisions...
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Flipside at OKFest 2014
Next week, the whole team will be in Berlin for the 2014 Open Knowledge Festival and all the fringe events...
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Lisbon Open Data Maker Night IV
If you’re in Lisbon on May 29 and interested in making stuff with Open Data, be sure not to miss...
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A data collection approach for call centers
Open source data collection tools have taken a big flight in the past years, in part because of the proliferation...
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Lisbon Open Data Maker Night III
If you’re in Lisbon on March 27 and interested in making stuff with Open Data, be sure not to miss...
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Flipside.org redesign
Last week we launched a thoroughly redesigned version of flipside.org. The previous iteration had remained almost unchanged ever since Flipside...
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Ricardo Mestre joins Flipside
We’re excited to announce that Ricardo Mestre has joined Flipside. Ricardo is a talented designer and front-end developer that has...
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Twitter Streams
For one of our projects, we needed to track particular hashtags on Twitter and show the last status update and...
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Processing data for Open Spending
Open Spending is a project from the Open Knowledge Foundation that aims to map financial transactions from governments around the...
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Incendios 0.2 - more and improved data
This week we launched a new version of incendios.pt with the most recent data published by ICNF (2012) and easy...
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Text to Change's commitment to open data
This is a slightly adapted version of a blog post that was originally published on the Text to Change blog....
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Lisbon Open Data Maker Night II
On Thursday October 17, we’ll be hosting another Open Data Maker Night. These nights are focused on making stuff with...
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Apache Solr Field Collection and text fields
For a recent Drupal project, we used Field Collection, a nifty little module that makes fields fieldable, and Apache Solr...
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Lisbon Open Data Maker Night I
On Thursday August 29, we’ll be hosting the first Lisbon Open Data Maker Night. It will be an informal gathering...
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Map interaction and zoom levels
An important feature of incendios.pt are the administrative area pages with detailed statistics on fires in that region. To allow...
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Incendios.pt - eleven years of fire data
Large areas of forest and agricultural land burn down each year in Portugal, especially during the hot summer months. Between...
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Jekyll Talk
Tonight we’ll be at Florida After Seven again, Lisbon’s monthly meetup for people interested in everything related to the web....
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Scripted Tilemill exports
A pretty handy feature that is not well documented in TileMill, is the possibility to call the export command from...
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Data collection with Airwolf
Recently we’ve been working with Research Africa on Airwolf, a platform that provides them and Text to Change with a...
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Managing Relations with JQuery sortable
For Drupal 7 there are several contributed modules like References and Entityreference, that allow you to relate entities. Though these...