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  • Witan – the flexible city modelling platform

    Elizabeth Weise Aug 19, 2015

    As Fran mentioned in herprevious blog post, Mastodon C is working together with the Greater London Authority to develop a flexible approach to city modelling. The aim is to take forecasting beyond the limitations of Excel, while providing modellers with the benefits of sophisticated data management tools, such as version control, security levels and scaling […]

  • A next-generation city modelling platform is born… (well, conceived… blog post

    Fran Bennett Jun 4, 2015

    [cross posted from the London DataStore blog] There’s been a lot of discussion, on this blog and elsewhere, of what to actually do with city data once it’s out in the world. We think that, given the capital’s booming population and the consequent policy focus on addressing a wide range of infrastructure needs, one of the […]

  • Want to build UI in Clojurescript?

    Bruce Durling May 22, 2015

    We’re looking for a User Interface designer and developer to help us work on an upcoming project. More details are below. Who we are Mastodon C are agile big data specialists. We offer the open source technology platform and the skills to help our clients realise the potential of their data. We work in particular […]

  • City Modeller/Data Scientist Job

    Bruce Durling May 18, 2015

    We’re looking for an experienced City Modeller and Data Scientist to help us work on an upcoming project. More details are below. Who we are Mastodon C are agile big data specialists. We offer the open source technology platform and the skills to help our clients realise the potential of their data. We work in […]

  • Handoffs considered expensive

    Bruce Durling Mar 15, 2015

    It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a team of coders in possession of dependencies must be in trouble. Much of agile at scale is about reducing or eliminating the dependencies between teams, usually by making multiskilled teams (see devops et al). Since working at Mastodon C though I’ve noticed that I’ve not suffered this […]

  • Finding technology innovators using big data

    Fran Bennett Feb 10, 2015

    We just finished a piece of work for Nesta, looking at how to spot innovative software developers and firms using publicly available data. It was an intriguing exercise – and if you’re a developer, you might want to have a look and see if you can spot anyone you know (we certainly did!). Longer explanation is here if you […]

  • Useful air quality data library

    Fran Bennett Feb 3, 2015

    We just published a new how-to to the Digital Catapult’s Open Health Data Platform, walking through how to get and use UK air quality data at scale. The explanation and example code might be useful to you if you’re thinking of adding air quality data into your analysis.

  • We’re on the Today Programme!

    Fran Bennett Jan 27, 2015

    We were on national radio recently, talking about being a disruptive UK technology company. Just before @fhr and I were on air, we sneaked a photo from backstage of John & Justin @BBCr4today pic.twitter.com/3EcMSRxonO — Jessica Bland (@pesska) January 6, 2015 You can hear the whole thing at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b04wtwfl from 2:55

  • Reflections on an internship

    Fran Bennett Sep 6, 2014

    Our latest superstar intern, Max, has just left us to go back to his last year of university at Queen Mary University of London. Trying to extend this day as much as possible because it's our intern @maxdrooghayes 's last day at @MastodonC and we hate goodbyes. — Anna Pawlicka (@AnnaPawlicka) August 29, 2014 He’s […]

  • Open Health Data platform is launched

    Fran Bennett May 2, 2014

    We had the big launch this week for the Open Health Data Platform, at Shoreditch Village Hall. It seemed like the audience agreed with us that there was plenty of good stuff to be done with open health data: Pretty conclusive result from the audience vote #OHDP says @krishgm pic.twitter.com/F8jFydyj17 — Mary McKenna (@MMaryMcKenna) April 30, 2014 We’ve […]

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