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I've just published a blog on the barriers that social and small enterprises face within public procurement: medium.com/@paul.stepczak/pr…
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Meta are discontinuing their Portal range and have begun to remove third party apps from their devices. Is anyone currently using these devices to support #DigitalInclusion and engagement? If so, what alternatives are you considering? Would you like to work on this task together?
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Diolch @einirsion @Arts_Wales_am gadeirio trafodaeth wych yng nghwmni Efa Gruffudd Jones @ComyGymraeg , Derek Walker @futuregencymru a Siân Lewis @Urdd ar 'Sut mae cyflawni ‘Cymru â Diwylliant Bywiog lle mae’r Gymraeg yn Ffynnu? ' Digon i gnoi cil ar ôl heddiw.
#Cymru
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Thanks @einirsion @Arts_Wales_ for chairing a fantastic discussion with Efa Gruffudd Jones @ComyGymraeg, Derek Walker @futuregencymru and Siân Lewis @Urdd on ‘How do we achieve a Wales of vibrant culture and thriving Welsh language?’ Plenty to take away from today.
#Wales
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Beautiful morning in Cardiff ☀️ Up early ready for our @AuditWales_GPX event this morning! Looking forward to this! #AWales
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@AnneLouTonge opens todays #AWpoverty22 event today @GlamCricket
Anne-Louise talked about the @ChildreninWales annual child and family poverty survey report - you can view this here
childreninwales.org.uk/news/…
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this goes doubly for the arts and humanities of course, because art teaches us to dream, and studying humanities give us a sense of our place in the world, in our history
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The best thing about in person is the sides conversations before and after, catching up with someone, picking up a theme and following it up after a session, I really miss this!
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Helen Barnard, director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, tells @jackielongc4 the government should “actually listen to people who have experience with the system” when designing universal credit.
channel4.com/news/universal-…
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Really looking forward to this launch next week as it's been incredibly moving reading 100 people's stories so far.
This is *not* a one-off survey, but an ongoing exercise in listening to citizens' concerns, suggestions and hopes.
Come and join us, and share yours.
Covid-19 has changed the way we live, work and play.
To understand the impact of the pandemic we have partnered up to use the storytelling tool Sensemaker.
We'll explain why we've done this + what we hope to achieve in our launch.
🕙 10am
🗓️ Tues, 8/12
eventbrite.co.uk/e/129312460…
Sam Williams retweeted
Covid-19 has changed the way we live, work and play.
To understand the impact of the pandemic we have partnered up to use the storytelling tool Sensemaker.
We'll explain why we've done this + what we hope to achieve in our launch.
🕙 10am
🗓️ Tues, 8/12
eventbrite.co.uk/e/129312460…
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I couldn’t just walk past this Tweet, so here is some fun #dataviz
Scented candles: An unexpected victim of the COVID-19 pandemic 1/n
ALT 3 R-generated graphs: 1) Top 3 unscented candles 2017-2020 reviews: rating (1-5) on the y axis; date on the x axis; the scatterplot shows a relatively flat line across the three years. N = 1,118 2) Top 3 scented candles 2017-2020 reviews: rating (1-5) on the y axis; date on the x axis; the scatterplot shows a relatively flat line that drops off sharply after January 2020. N = 11,404 3) A bar chart with 11 bars (January-November 2020). Proportion of reviews mentioning lack of scent on the y axis; month on the x axis. January = 2%, February = 3.5%, March = 2.8%, April = 4.6%, May = 3.4%, June = 2.4%, July = 3%, August = 3.2%, September = 3.1%, October = 5.8%, November = 5.8%.
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Nice illustration of the basic idea behind Benford‘s law. On the right are areas of the world’s countries, measured in square kilometers. The first digit of that area is then color coded. Notice that there are many more 1’s (purples) than 2’s, more 2’s than 3’s, etc.
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As the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction approaches, their moon systems are already merging in the sky. With our Moon and Pluto's 5 moons in the mix, tomorrow you'll be able to extend your fist at arm's length and cover 80% of our solar system's planetary moons.
orbitsimulator.com/gravitySi…
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Benoit Mandelbrot was born on this day in 1924 (d. 2010), largely responsible for our interest in, and knowledge of fractal geometry applications. Here's a record of him talking about fractals in 2010, the year in which he died.
youtu.be/ay8OMOsf6AQ
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The amazing Fibonacci elephant, by Daniel Mentrard.
GeoGebra Source: bit.ly/3kLcPLU
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This webinar follows on from our recent report Future Audit Arrangements for Community and Town Councils in Wales #AWfutureaudit
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A brilliant tuned mass damper demonstration with simple paper
[original source, Luca Bellini: bit.ly/2CFiS3E]
[more on mass dampers: bit.ly/2ApvSV1]