A quick round-up of some recent-ish posts that I’ve popped up on the School Of Data blog…

• Hunting for Data – Learning How to Read and Write Web Addresses, aka URLs – understanding a little bit about how the web is wired in terms of the web addresses (aka web locations, URLs etc etc) it uses can help you improve the power of your web searches, and also provides a gentle way in to the sort of thinking behind how databases are structured, and how we can query them.
• Asking Questions of Data – Some Simple One-Liners – a simple intro to querying a database, in this case, a Google Spreadsheet…
• When A Government Minister’s Data Laundry is Hung Out to Dry… – government ministers really shouldn’t try to pass dodgy stats…
• Asking Questions of Data – Garment Factories Data Expedition – a quick intro to interrogating a simple database…