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Dave on Data Subject Access Requests
I was looking for a DSAR template, but couldn’t find anything for free, except the ICO page. So I made one, here are my notes, or will be … Read More
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Dave on Sankey diagrams
Post election, I wanted to make some sankey diagrams. My usual data visualisation tools are Excel or Libre Calc and I don’t think they include this charting option, but I want to do it. Here are my unfinished notes … Read More
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Dave on Bathroom Fan
I need to replace my bathroom extractor fan. It is a Vent-Axia Silhouette 100T. Here are my notes … Read More
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Dave on Discrimination Compensation
I am doing a couple of cases that require me to check up the likely compensation for discrimination at work. Here are my notes. … Read More
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Dave on Analysing the 2019 Election Results
In order to answer the questions I want answered I need the election results in spreadsheet form. I have previously got this from the Electoral Commission; it took ’em 18 days to get it out last time, wonder what the delay is this time. Eventually, I was pointed at the House of Commons Library Page, and have posted the results by constituency .xlsx file to this site (it became available on the 28th Jan). I originally made some notes about retrieving the results from the Democracy Club. Here are my notes. … Read More
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Dave on Email Verify
Another GDPR requirement is that when signing up for something, the publisher needs to verify that the email given is genuine and belongs to the user. WordPress offers several plugins; there are other ways, here are my notes … Read More
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Dave on DataPraxis and the Results
One of the first commentators on the General Election was a new outfit called DataPraxis, anyway new to me. The report, Tory Landslide, Progressives split is published as a tightly defined .pdf and is behind a use once cookie controlled access scheme. It’s very hard to share, navigate & mine. Here’s what I have done to try and make my access easier. …
I mirrored the .pdf and bookmarked it in diigo. I then used https://www.pdftohtml.net/ to make an html version which can be found here.
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