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Adi Eyal

Former Director
  • Honours Degree in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town
  • Two-year masters programme in Computer Science at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
  • Joined a tiny start-up in the early days of the dot com boom.
  • Led a special projects hit squad at a machine learning company
  • Ran a project that promoted access to medicines in southern Africa by injecting procurement data into the pharmaceutical marketplace.

Projects

Adi

contributes to

Living Wage

Living Wage

Calculate A Fair Wage
MPR

MPR

Medicine Price Registry
Municipal Money

Municipal Money

Monitor Municipal Spending
Vulekamali

Vulekamali

SA Budget Portal
Wazimap

Wazimap

Multi-region exploration
Youth Explorer

Youth Explorer

Youth Focused Data Explorer

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Adi
Civic Tech
Law
Government
Citizen Empowerment
OpenUp
Collaborating on Open Legislation in Poland, Romania and South Africa
What we learnt collaborating with Romania and Poland on civic tech for open legislation.
Civic Tech
OpenUp
Opinion
The Year in Review by OpenUp Director Adi Eyal
After a few difficult years, this year, despite the global disaster, was OpenUp’s annus mirabilis and I am deeply grateful to my colleagues who have…
Civic Tech
Tools
Research
Tax Clock 2020: How much of your work day is spent paying taxes?
Did you know that you don’t just pay taxes in Rands, but in hours too?
Opinion
Tools
Civic Tech
OpenUp
No-one told me how to run a civic tech organisation
An exploration of the gaps between expectations and reality when running a civic tech NGO, and what I've learnt along the way.
Visualisations
Police officer deaths are on the decline
Despite increasing levels of crime, the number of police deaths has decreased dramatically in the past 5 years. The reasons isn't clear although the…
Visualisations
A list of properties owned by the City of Cape Town
We have created an interactive map of all properties owned by the City of Cape Town.
Data
Tools
Tutorials & Training
How to use OpenRefine to unpivot columns
Learning how to use pivot tables is a milestone in your ability to wrangle data. It is a key tool for basic analysis of data. What happens if your…
Visualisations
Are poor communities more affected by crime?
We have produced a series of data visualisations that look into the instances of crime in various communities of different income levels.
Data
Tutorials & Training
Tools
How to use OpenRefine to calculate aggregates on facets
I continue to learn more about how to use OpenRefine in new and interesting ways. In this tutorial explain how to emulate the SQL grouping functions.
Civic Tech
Opinion
Tools
Civic technologists - stop using the word ‘solve’ dammit
We need more technologists to enter the world of civic tech but beware that your tech skills will only get you so far. Social issues cannot be solved…
Visualisations
Directors by race in South Africa
Has there been any racial transformation in the economy? This preliminary visualisation helps explore this question.
Visualisations
Fascinating look at the ages of doctors in South Africa
Fascinating to look at the ages of doctors in South Africa. A new cohort of black doctors has emerged in the past 20 years.

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