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Over 100 people, 100 days: bringing climate & health data skills to activists and civil servants in Africa
OpenUp has launched an exciting collaboration with the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data this month to enhance data science skills…
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How to budget for an impact technology project
A Guide on the exact line items you need to fund social impact innovation, and some points to remember.
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Can I use AI for this?
A thoughtful framework for using AI to enhance your work.
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Helping investigative reporters to work with data
OpenUp, in partnership with Africa Data Hub, recently hosted a two-day workshop in Johannesburg where Southern Africa's top investigative journalists…
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ChatGPT is a liar (and here's when thats useful)
ChatGPT can be used to help you with some of your content needs. But to get productive use from it, it is worth thinking about what it, in reality…
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Supercharging Google Sheets with the Power of ChatGPT
ChatGPT is a useful tool for generating test data quickly and easily. It can save you time and effort on your projects. While it has limitations, it…
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Empowering Yourself: How to Access Information through PAIA
A primer on how to use South Africa’s Promotion of Access to Information Act
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How to quickly download ward level data using StatsSA's SuperWEB2
With over 4,400 municipal wards in South Africa, manually selecting and downloading data from StatsSA can be tedious and time consuming — but it…
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How to select all geographies at a given level in one go using StatsSA's SuperWEB2
With over 4,400 municipal wards in South Africa, manually selecting and downloading data from SuperWEB2 can be tedious and time consuming — but it…
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How To Use the Twitter API to collect Tweet data
An OpenUp guide to collecting tweet data from the Twitter API v2 using Python 3
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