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Resize Images online About We help individuals and businesses to get, clean, visualise, analyse and manage data from thousands of sources. For science, journalism, lead generation—whatever you need. The magic happens via “tools” running on our self-service platform. But we also offer managed services for corporate customers who want to make the most of their public and private data. Our team Francis Irving CEO A technology leader, Francis created the original TortoiseCVS, which has improved version… More » control for tens of millions of people. Dr Ian Hopkinson Senior Data Scientist 8 years as an academic soft matter physicist, then research scientist at Unilever Plc for 8 years… More » with experience of numerical models, simulations, data analysis, visualisation, image processing using Matlab, R and Python amongst other technologies. Dave ‘Dragon’ McKee Data Scientist Paul Furley Data Scientist Dr Steven Maude Data Scientist Aine McGuire CMO Aidan McGuire Business Development Director David Jones First Engineer Thanks

Bad Services? Holding Officials Accountable with SMS, Radio, and TRAC FM A recent radio poll at Sanyu FM in Kampala, Uganda, asked listeners what area of service delivery should be a priority: healthcare, education, security, sanitation, or transport. Using a new tool, TRAC FM , the station was able to solicit comments via SMS from listeners, discuss the issue on the air, and create and post online visualizations of the responses. The station received 103 SMS responses which showed that healthcare was the major concern for listeners, which accounted for 65% of responses. With help from Text to Change and in partnership with local media organizations, TRAC FM provides citizens in Uganda with a platform to monitor, scrutinize, and discuss public service issues via SMS, radio, and online data visualizations. According to the TRAC FM website : TRAC works in countries affected by poverty and conflict. The TRAC FM software platform was tested earlier this year with students from the Makarere University Business School in Kampala. Where TRAC FM is Being Used

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