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Labs Members

Anyone can participate in Labs and you don’t need to sign up formally. At the same time, we think it’s good for people to be able to self-identify as official “Members” as a way to show they are part of the community. Anyone may become a Member – just follow the quick sign-up steps!

Members

  • Matt Fullerton Software (mostly backend) Developer

    Member since 07 November 2014

    Matt was involved in research of various kinds for almost 10 years: video decompression for people with visual-impairment, driving simulation for night-driving difficulties and traffic modelling. Through a joint freelance effort with my wife, Birgit Fullerton (researcher in General Practice medicine and Epidemiologist in training), I am now working on web and mobile development, sensor data capture, data analysis and visualisation. I love open data and am excited by the plethora of tools its increase has inspired.

  • Richard Littauer Software Developer

    Member since 29 September 2014

    Richard is a continual fiddler with small open source projects, and a passionate advocate for open source projects. He studied linguistics and thinks about helping under-resourced and endangered languages most often, but also brainstorms ways of opening up academia and building communities. He mainly works in javascript and emails.

  • Peter Kraker Researcher, developer, open science enthusiast

    Member since 22 September 2014

    Peter is a researcher at Know-Center of Graz University of Technology and a 2013/14 Panton Fellow. His main research interests are visualizations based on scholarly communication on the web, open science, and alternative metrics for science (altmetrics).

  • Ricardo Lafuente Designer

    Member since 19 August 2014

    Ricardo is a hacker and designer who has been busy tinkering with F/LOSS tools, as well as making a few. He spends an unhealthy amount of evenings writing code (mostly Python) for projects ranging from vector design hacks to data gobbling scrapers. Co-founded and coordinates the activities of Transparência Hackday Portugal, the Porto-based open data collective.

  • Hannes Gassert Data wrangler, policy nerd

    Member since 04 June 2014

    Hannes is a civic entrepreneur, author and community organizer, moonlighting as a Javascript developer and data wrangler. Has a dark past in Semantic Web research. Also founder of opendata.ch.

  • Nar Kumar Chhantyal Software Developer, Data Wrangler

    Member since 09 May 2014

    Nar Kumar is Software Developer and loves open source. His other interests are open data, economics and society.

  • Mike Chelen Software Developer, Data Wrangler

    Member since 13 March 2014

    Software developer and system admin with an interest in open source, open data, and open science. Enjoys data analysis and visualization.

  • Matthew Landauer Founder, OpenAustralia Foundation

    Member since 11 March 2014

    Matthew is a developer and founder and director of the OpenAustralia Foundation, an Australian charity created to make and share tools to help everyone strengthen our civic society.

    Most recently he has been building Morph.io.

  • David Yoon Experimenter

    Member since 01 March 2014

    Always curious about learning more.

  • Jezeel Muhammek Data Scraping, Analyst

    Member since 01 February 2014

    Jezeel is a python enthusiast and researcher in the field of data mining and data analytics.He is intrested in seeking and developing new methodologies to scrape data and make it into a more simpler way. He has developed several tools to make his work more easier.

  • Thomas Levine Dada artist

    Member since 19 December 2013

    Playing with computers since he was young, Tom eventually developed back and wrist pain, so he started studying ergonomics and conducting quantitative ergonomics research. At some point, people started calling him a data scientist. And his back and wrists now hurt less. He recently been playing music and studying open data.

  • Todd Epp Journalist

    Member since 09 December 2013

    Todd is the editor and publisher of Northern Plains News, a digital news service serving news outlets in South Dakota and the Northern Plains with alternative news and data-based stories.

  • Stefan Urbanek Data Brewmaster

    Member since 08 December 2013

    Stiivi brews data in the Data Brewery. He designs data processing pipelines, implements data quality management and writes open-source tools for data warehouses in Python and SQL. Author of Cubes – lightweight Python OLAP, and Bubbles – abstract data processing.

  • Enric G. torrents Researcher and Data Wrangler

    Member since 07 December 2013

    Enric is a data scientist, currently pulling together law-related data from virtually all national and international jurisdictions for a couple of projects at the Stanford Legal Informatics Department (Codex), while working on making law more widely accessible and understandable both at the local level and as a global, complex system.

  • Alioune Dia Software developer

    Member since 15 November 2013

    I work for NGOs and help to design softwares for health and contribute to fight against poverty in Africa. I'm one of the leader of open source community in Dakar and a fervent defender of free software and Open Knowledge in general. I work with many labs tools for local projects in Senegal and in sub-regions, and I'm a member of http://sn.okfn.org. I graduated from the University of Paris 5 and Dakar university.

  • Tarek Amr Data Wrangler

    Member since 11 November 2013

    I had my postgraduate degree in Data Mining and Information Retrieval at the University of East Anglia. I am trying to challenge the old saying, "Jack of all trades, master of none". I have about 10 years experience in Software Development. In previous lives I used to work as an Information Security Consultant and Presales Manager. I also have been volunteering in Global Voices Online (GVO) since 2007, and currently I am local ambassador of the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) in Egypt. Words like Open Data, Government 2.0, Data Visualisation, Data Journalism and Social Startups are like music to my ears.

  • Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche Semantic Web Researcher

    Member since 22 August 2013

    Pierre-Yves is a Semantic Web researcher. His after hours contribution to the community include the Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV) and Public SPARQL Endpoints Status.

  • Paul Fitzpatrick Software Developer

    Member since 08 August 2013

    Paul grew up on a small farm in Ireland. There were goats involved. He now lives in Montclair, New Jersey. There are fewer goats involved.

  • Neil Ashton Writer

    Member since 08 August 2013

    Neil is a writer and computational linguist. His interests resist categorization, ranging from ancient languages to functional programming and combining the abstract and the socially engaged. He has done graduate research at Cornell University and the University of Alberta.

  • Oleg Lavrovsky Developer and Data Wrangler

    Member since 02 August 2013

    Programmer on a quest to find common sense in the numbers, who believes that software is just a means to an end, in this case to build on shared knowledge and vanquish prejudice through the art and science of data. One of the founders of the Swiss Open Data community, organizer of hackspaces and hackathons, freelancer.

  • Yohan Boniface Software Developer

    Member since 16 July 2013

    Yohan is an idealist who try to actually *do* things. One of the main projects he is working on is uMap, which aims to make non technical persons use OSM data to create their embeddable web maps. He is also an active contributor for Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Before acting as idealist, he has been CTO of French newspaper Libération for some long years.

  • David Miller Human

    Member since 15 July 2013

    David was born at a very young age. Significantly later on, he joined fellow OKFNL-er Ross in a quest to make the NHS less bad after his ground-breaking research into Digital Homeopathic Delivery Systems.

  • Joshua Tauberer Civic Hacker

    Member since 22 June 2013

    Josh is the creator of GovTrack.us and author of Open Government Data: The Book.

  • Martin Keegan Software Engineer and Data Wrangler

    Member since 22 June 2013

    Martin is a software engineer who likes working with data; he's particularly interested in government spending data and census records, and likes to use a broad range of tools and systems for processing

  • Michael Bauer Data Diva

    Member since 06 June 2013

    Michael Bauer is a biomedical researcher, hacker and activist. After some years of spending his life as a pipette-scientist he noticed he could do something his peers couldn't: Handle data with ease. He thought: "One needs to do somethign about this". Fast-forward over an episode of activism for digital freedom: He joined the [School of Data](http://schoolofdata.org) to do exactly this.

  • Pieter Colpaert Linked Data Researcher

    Member since 31 May 2013

    I am a researcher in linked open data. I believe a lot of frustration today is caused by data not being accessible (when does my train leave, how long do I have to queue, where does my money go, and so on). My goal is to increase your life quality by contextualizing data into information without you even noticing it.

  • Andy Lulham Developer and Data Wrangler

    Member since 30 May 2013

    Andy gets really excited about good ideas – particularly the sort that use technology to fix glaring problems and make life better. He enjoys working with others to learn new skills, and loves a good hackday.

  • Seth Wolfwood Archivist and Developer

    Member since 29 May 2013

    Seth is a archivist of public domain digital data, and cares deeply about computer-based education. Skills include python, javascript, scraping and design.

  • Rowan Crawford Software Developer

    Member since 22 May 2013

    Ever since the advent of Node.js, Rowan has grabbed on to the idea of JavaScript everywhere. He writes healthcare software in the day, and works on his Open Government hobbies after hours.

  • Ross Jones Software Engineer. Devops.

    Member since 21 May 2013

    Ross is a software developer (and part-time devops) who loves working with back-end systems and should never be allowed near anything resembling CSS, HTML or JS. He also co-founded Open Health Care UK and was a founding organiser at the Liverpool Hackspace (@doesliverpool) and currently works on data.gov.uk.

  • Mark Brough Data Wrangler

    Member since 21 May 2013

    Mark is a researcher turned hacker, with a particular focus on aid data. Working for Publish What You Fund, he is building tools to show the potential of open aid data and analyse its quality.

  • Laura James Engineer. Somewhat rusty.

    Member since 21 May 2013

    Laura is an engineer who has worked with embedded systems, Python, Matlab and various kinds of hardware. These days she mostly seems to spend time in Excel but she also likes laser cutters.

  • Iain Emsley Data Wrangler

    Member since 20 May 2013

    Iain is a curiousity-driven hacker on literary, cultural and arts datasets. Skills include PHP, Python and Redis.

  • Daniel Lombraña González Developer and Citizen Science expert

    Member since 01 January 2013

    Daniel is a Computer Engineer with a PhD. Daniel develops open source software for the Citizen Science grassroots movement. He has expertise on volunteer computing, sensing and thinking areas like LHC@Home: Test4Theory project or the PyBossa platform that powers CrowdCrafting.org and ForestWatchers.net

  • Lisa Evans Data Wrangler

    Member since 15 October 2012

    Lisa is a software engineer and journalist. After helping to create Where Does My Money Go, she worked with the Guardian's datablog. She now works on OpenSpending.

  • Stefan Wehrmeyer Software Developer

    Member since 01 October 2012

    Stefan is a software engineer and creator of civic applications. He has created Mapnificent, a public transport utility, and Frag Den Staat, Germany's Freedom of Information portal.

  • Friedrich Lindenberg Developer and Data Wrangler

    Member since 01 August 2010

    Friedrich writes data-driven software to make political processes more accessible. He has worked on Adhocracy, OffenerHaushalt, OpenSpending and OffenesParlament.

  • Rufus Pollock Experimenter

    Member since 01 January 2005

    Rufus is an avid hacker on many small data tools, an enthusiastic collector of new datasets and an excited out-of-hours data-based investigator. Skills are various including some python, javascript, sysadmin and data wrangling.

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