CENSUSREPORTER on local host at Myanmar

Publishing open data is an important first step, accessing the data is the second. And that can be difficult. Census reporter  is an important step to access census data. The app or software used to access the census data is open source can be installed on a local machine. I successfully installed it using the this recipe.

Re Inventing Data Journalism. Speech at seminar UNFPA at Yangon Myanmar

Reinventing from peterverweij

Census data journalism training at Yangon Myanmar by UNFPA and Unesco

Training from peterverweij

Mapserver

Finally I got it up and and running QGIS map server and the web client. Using a local LAMP stack with Ubuntu 15.10. Here is an example of old data using 'burgemeesters' in Dutch municipalities. The map is working; next some fine tuning.

READY FOR THE HACK

Installed a new Linux machine running Kali 2.0, ready for fun.....Do some reading in one of these.

Creepy

Mapping tweets used to be a complicated process. I used R, downloading the tweets, then geo coding and mapping. Now there is a nice python program to download, analyze and map the tweets. Here is the installer.
I had no trouble installing in Ubuntu. First install the libraries; then download the the program, unzip and run the python script. Installing twitter API was no problem. Then start download the tweets and put them on a map. Here is een example.

Does your secure passwords look like this

I know, passwords, a pain...You have to make them, remember them and they are complicated. Like me, you make a few passwords, safe, but for a professional hacker easy to crack, and you use them several times on different sites. After some time you end up in a situation like this. Your security has dropped to less then 20%; your passwords are chaos.As if you leave your front door wide open with a sign that the key to the vault in vol 1 of Das Kapital in library.