Ian Watt
Board Trustee at Wikimedia Foundation
Aberdeen City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorIan Watt is an experienced data scientist and civic technologist with 11+ years delivering digital transformation and open data programmes across local government and the third sector. He has led city-scale open data initiatives for all seven Scottish cities, built and managed digital and data teams, and secured EU funding to drive civic innovation. A co-founder of Code The City and OpenDataScotland and director of Data Enabled Ltd, he blends hands-on technical expertise (MSc Data Science) with governance experience as a trustee and non-exec director. Ian combines programme delivery know-how with grassroots community building—he regularly teaches coding to young people and helped establish Scotland’s first ODI node in Aberdeen. Notably, his background spans both operational council roles and strategic national policy work, giving him rare insight into publishing open data that actually meets civic needs.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
602reputation
49kreached
18answers
7questions
Github Skills (66)
backend10
tushare10
sensor10
ats10
open-data10
python-requests10
portal10
journal9
commons9
instagram9
graph-algorithms9
python9
jekyll9
script9
graph-theory8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
watty62/Scot_covid19
Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
results of covid19 testing in Scotland
Contributions:156 commits, 1 PR, 149 pushes in 5 months
testingscotland
CodeTheCity/foiawiki2
Feb 2015 - May 2022
Contributions:2 pushes in 7 years 4 months
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