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• Creating searchable Post Office Inquiry transcripts Video
  Transcripts of the Post Office Inquiry hearings are put online, but only in PDF and text format. This talk explains my history of scraping and parsing official information, how I have taken these transcripts and converted them into a linkable, searchable, and readable version, how I automatically keep the site up to date, and why I‘ve done this.
  Video of presentation
  ⭐ Electromagnetic Field 1^st June 2024
• Behind the Local Lockdown Lookup Slides & Video
  Open data and split postcodes. Slides | Video of presentation
  BCS OSSG 18^th March 2021
• When Civic Tech matures: the issues that arise in long-running projects Slides & Video
  Slides | Video of presentation
  TICTeC Paris 20^th March 2019
• bach.js lightning talk
  mySociety internal 6^th February 2019
• The Three Rs of Web Performance
  Reduce, Reuse, Restructure
  ⭐ BrumJS 17^th April 2018
• Using Django’s Streaming­HTTPResponse for JSON & HTML Video
  Stopping a server running out of memory; there is also a blog post version of this talk.
  DjangoCon Europe 1^st June 2015
• Poplus Components Video
  OSDC Nordic 9^th May 2015
• Brum Tech Scene interview Video
  Brum Tech Scene October 2014
• The Mystery of the Multiple Train Tickets Video
  Electromagnetic Field 29^th August 2014
• Train Tickets & The Missing Bank Holiday Mystery Video
  ⭐ PrimeConf
  The Royal Institution 13^th June 2014
• Theatricalia
  Open Data and Cultural Heritage Workshop 24^th November 2011
• Theatricalia
  Multipack Presents:
  Responsive Web Design 12^th November 2011
• A provocation on archives and silos Video
  I also wrote a blog post on this talk over on my Fringe blog.
  ⭐ Edgelands, Edinburgh 21^st August 2011
• What if You Never Needed to Miss a Show? Video
  Culture Hack Day January 2011
• MapIt and traintimes
  WhereCamp UK 20^th November 2010
• Theatricalia
  The Media Festival Arts 9^th September 2010
• data.gov.uk launch
  London 21^st January 2010
• Theatricalia
  Video of Oxford Geek Night 15, Video of LugRadio Live
  ⭐ LugRadio Live 24^th October 2009 and Oxford Geek Night 15 25^th November 2009
• mySociety
  Video
  LugRadio Live 24^th October 2009
• mySociety: Technical Tales
  BLUG 21^st May 2009
• Trains, Pains, & Postboxes
  Fazeley Studios 19^th August 2009
• Dealing With Data
  PostDigital 22^nd May 2009
• Timestamping Politicians
  Matching Hansard speeches to video clips
  BarCamp London 4 1^st June 2008
• Is Cornwall part of England?
  This is a harder question to answer than you might think.
  ⭐ BarCamp Brighton 9^th September 2007
• Train in Vain – traintimes.org.uk
  A talk about the website, and an introduction to split ticketing.
  Oxford Geek Night 3 25^th July 2007
• Neighbourhood Fix-It / BBC News Archive
  Soon after the launch of what would become FixMyStreet; plus a look at some News visualisations.
  BarCamp London 2 17^th February 2007
• Live Trains Map & other mapping stories
  BarCamp London 3^rd September 2006
• TheyWorkForYou API
  BarCamp London 2^nd September 2006
• mySociety & Open Source
  A look at the various mySociety websites
  LUGRadio Live 22^nd July 2006