Michael Smethurst

Michael is a Data Integration Architect at PDS

Our second Parliament, democracy and data meetup

Michael Smethurst, 6 March 2017 - Collaboration culture, Community, Data and search, Digital strategy

Last Tuesday, the Data and Search team held our second public event at Newspeak House. At the first outing, Dan Barrett gave a talk about our work and the various problems we're trying to fix. For the second event we decided on a change of format.

Sharing lists of lists

Michael Smethurst, 4 November 2016 - Data and search, Experts in what we do, Open

For the last few months we've been sketching out the details of services the data platform needs to provide, getting the infrastructure in place and working with the new website team. Now we're beginning to explore the data we need to provide.

Modelling Parliament(s?)

Michael Smethurst, 9 September 2016 - Collaboration culture, Data and search, Experts in what we do, Open

Since April, I've been working as part of the Data and Search team. It's a new team so we've been figuring out what we do, what we don't do, how we work together and with other people. And we've made a fair bit of progress in identifying what's currently broken and how to fix it.

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