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!
Labs members come from a wide variety of backgrounds and are based all over the world. See below if there’s an open data hacker, wrangler, or researcher in your area.
Members
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Lieke Ploeger
Member since 14 March 2019
As Communications Officer, Lieke works on increasing the profile and awareness of Open Knowledge Foundation projects online, supporting and developing the core community around projects as well as engaging in social media and content. -
Lilly Winfree open science/open data/neuroscience
Member since 13 March 2019
Lilly believes that the future of scientific research is open, and is the Product Manager for Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research.
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Matt Thompson Open Data
Member since 07 May 2018
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Georges Labrèche Open Data
Member since 28 April 2018
Georges Labrèche is the founder and chairperson of Open Data Kosovo. He was also one of Frictionless Data’s Tool Fund grantees in 2017. Read more about him here.
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Fshahnewaz
Member since 01 March 2018
username: FShahnewaz title: Computer Science Professional area: Open Data email: [email protected] github: FShahnewaz twitter: @Fshahnewaz10 web: http://www.fshahnewaz.com/githubprojects/ img: http://www.fshahnewaz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/121212.jpg place: Boston, USA permalink: /members/FShahnewaz/index.html -
Daniel Fireman Open Data
Member since 16 February 2018
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Open Knowledge Greece Open Data
Member since 14 February 2018
Open Knowledge Greece is an official chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation network. Find out more about their work on their website.
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Vitor Baptista Developer and Data Wrangler
Member since 29 November 2017
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DataHub Team Data hosting, sharing and processing
Member since 03 November 2017
Datahub is the fastest way for individuals and teams to find, share and publish high quality data online. DataHub.io is being developed by Datopian as part of the Frictionless Data initative.
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Meiran Zhiyenbayev Data-Driven App Developer
Member since 11 October 2017
Meiran works for Datopian who have been developing datahub.io as part of the Frictionless Data initative. For more information, see his LinkedIn profile
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Nikesh Balami Data Wrangler and Wanna be Civic Hacker
Member since 25 June 2017
Nikesh is the Chief Executive Officer of Open Knowledge Nepal. The previous led of Open Government Data and Open Development working groups. He occasionally writes the code but loves scraping, collecting and analyzing the Data.He is currently pursuing his bachelor degree in Computer Engineering.
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Stephen Gates Connecting dots, coordinating, testing and documenting
Member since 11 June 2017
Stephen is passionate about driving improvement in the quality of open data. He has contributed to a number of Open Knowledge projects, established Australia’s Open Data Census and can be found on the Open Knowledge Forum. Working with the Open Data Institute, Stephen has contributed to the development of the Open Data Pathway, Open Data Certificates and Comma Chameleon. His current project is Data Curator, a simple desktop CSV editor to help describe, validate and share usable open data.
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Serah Rono open data/source/science advocate
Member since 19 May 2017
Serah believes that any work she engages in is only as meaningful as the change it propels in grassroots communities, and that the work does not stop until all communities are at par in terms of access to resources, opportunities, and empowerment by information that this opens them up to. This is the measure by which she defines impact.
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Adam Kariv Senior Developer, OpenSpending Technical Lead
Member since 14 February 2017
For more info, check out the Open Knowledge Foundation team page.
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Antti Poikola MyData activist
Member since 08 November 2016
Developing solutions for the open collaboration between citizens and the public sector organizations. Active in Open Data-, MyData- and Cyclingmovements in Finland and elsewhere. My calling is to work with issues that make cities and urban areas better and more sustainable places to live in. -
Kemel Zaidan Technology and Activism
Member since 11 August 2016
Kemel Zaidan is an avid learner who has decided that will write his MBA thesis about open data. Skills and experiences are as broad as art, journalism, open source, activism, evangelism, besides mostly Ruby, Node.js and lots of Linux.
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Alexandre Bonnasseau Software Developer
Member since 25 March 2016
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Mika Honkanen Data Scientist
Member since 21 March 2016
Mika is a data scientist & engineer who believes in the power of open data to make the world a better place. Skills include startups, lean, data curation, cleansing, machine learning, data mining, language understanding & productization of data science pipelines. -
Mattias Axell Systemic Process Leader and Educator
Member since 05 January 2016
Mattias is educated at Kaospilot and is committed to developing people and organizations. He helps others in experimenting with data and engage in systemic change processes. He is an occasional data wrangler, doing experiments like the first visualization of all of Sweden's public bodies. He knows some Python, bits of JavaScript as well as some HTML & CSS. -
John Snow Data Scientist
Member since 12 December 2015
John is a longtime data scientist & engineer who strongly believes in the power of data and analytics to make the world a better place. Skills include data curation, cleansing, simulation, anonymization, machine learning, data mining, language understanding & productization of data science pipelines. -
David Brennan
Member since 30 October 2015
David works in the pharmaceutical industry and likes to tinker with different technologies. -
Josh Wieder linux + db administration
Member since 13 October 2015
Josh has spent most of his career as a systems administrator for commercial data centers and hosting companies. He is currently the Director of IT for the Puppycide Database Project. -
Adolfo Antón Bravo Data Journalist
Member since 21 August 2015
Adolfo is learning everytime he can about data journalism, semantic web technologies, computers, cooking or gardening. Don't believe the hype! -
James G. Kim Web Enthusiast, Toolsmith, and Researcher
Member since 29 July 2015
James G. Kim is a toolsmith turned innovator. He has been working with Web technologies for more than a decade, and has developed strong enthusiasm for the Web, especially of data and services. He has M.Sc. in Computer Science, and is working on his Ph.D. in Medical Informatics, serving a role as an innovator and researcher at the company called LiST Inc.
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Gerald Bauer Data Wrangler, Beer Hunter, Football Statistican
Member since 28 April 2015
Gerald is an internet professional with more than 10+ years of industry experience (has worked for Google, Apple, and others) and an enthusiastic collector of football and beer data. Skills include Ruby, SQLite and COBOL. -
Miroslav Schlossberg Data Wrangler and Civic Hacktivist
Member since 30 March 2015
Miroslav is an avid hacktivist on open source in government, freedom of information and transparency. He is actively involved in shaping local open data public policies, application of open technologies and government transparency analysis. -
Paul Walsh Developer
Member since 20 February 2015
Paul is a full-stack developer who delights in the possibilities of social and personal empowerment through open data. He sees technology as a means to this end, and finds his education in anthropology and sociology always relevant when working on open data projects. Skills include Python, Javascript, UX, and just enough DevOps to be dangerous.
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Hoony Jang Full-Stack Civic Hacker, Data Wrangler
Member since 08 February 2015
Hoony is a civic hacker on prototyping, an enthusiastic coordinating community, and open data. Full-stack javascript, publishing and fundamental Rust Studier. -
Tod Robbins Librarian/Developer
Member since 25 November 2014
Tod is a librarian and tinkers with code. He is a devotee of history, digital humanities, genealogy, open data and almond milk. Skills include schema love, javascript, python, and data wrangling.
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Cobi Smith open development & media
Member since 24 November 2014
Cobi is a science communicator, open activist and jill of all trades. -
Daniel Fowler Experimenter
Member since 15 November 2014
Dan recently completed an MSc in ICT for Development from Royal Holloway, University of London. It exposed him to, among other things, the significant challenges and possibilities inherent in the use of open data for human development. Outside of academic research, he has experience in system administration and web development.
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Matt Fullerton Software (mostly backend) Developer
Member since 07 November 2014
After being involved in research (video decompression for people with visual-impairment, driving simulation for night-driving difficulties and traffic modelling) for almost 10 years, Matt now works on web development, data analysis and visualisation, currently for SMARTLANE. He loves 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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David Yoon Experimenter
Member since 01 March 2014
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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.
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Thomas Levine Dada artist
Member since 19 December 2013
Thomas Levine is a dada artist interested in sleep. He wrote about government open data portals from 2012 to 2013.
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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.
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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 (RIP) was 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 something about this”. Fast-forward over an episode of activism for digital freedom: He joined the School of Data to do exactly this.
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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. -
Augusto Herrmann Data Wrangler
Member since 08 September 2010
A hacker striving to find ways to use data and open source software to make lives better, working both from within government tweaking open data policy and also out-of-hours data-based side projects. He has worked on CKAN, Global Open Data Index and publicbodies.org. Skills include python, basic javascript, scraping, semantic web technologies, natural language processing, machine learning and data wrangling. -
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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