Category Archives: Open Government

Facts Are Sacred – a review

Posted on 6 May 2013 by ian

Facts are Sacred is the new book by Simon Rogers, the award-wining editor of guardian.co.uk/data and a news editor on the Guardian, working with the graphics team to bring figures to life on the page. He was closely involved with … Continue reading →

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Use IFTTT & Readitlater to mine info from Twitter

Posted on 2 February 2012 by ian

While the following post uses #opendata as an example subject to pull information from Twitter, the methodolgy is generic. The background is that I love to know what is happening in the world of Open Data, but there are so … Continue reading →

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PLODS – but faster

Posted on 6 April 2011 by ian

The following article is an adaptation of one I wrote for my team’s internal blog at work. Today I coined an acronym. PLODS – Public Linked Open Data Sets. Anyone who does not understand why publishing open data is a … Continue reading →

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NHTG11 – a personal reflection

Posted on 27 March 2011 by ian

Yesterday I spent nine and a half hours in a room with a group of hard-core coders and not only lived to tell the tale, but thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Firstly I should say thanks to Dr Bruce Scharlau of … Continue reading →

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Two great new Google projects

Posted on 23 March 2011 by ian

Two new Google projects crossed my radar today – and very interesting they both are, too. The first is Google For Non-profits.  It offers the chance to reach and engage supporters, raise awareness of campaigns, improve operations, and a mass … Continue reading →

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Open Data – some (mostly recent) bookmarks

Posted on 8 March 2011 by ian

Open Data The Open Data daily: http://paper.li/tag/opendata Birmingham City Council publishes electric vehicle charging points as open data KML with microformats: http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/evcp Legislation 2.0: Legislation.gov.uk  http://j.mp/cV2MRu Great article on creating open data portals http://ldata.in/d406XB Hacking code as a new way … Continue reading →

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Open Data Masterclass – Aberdeen University 17 November 2010

Posted on 8 March 2011 by ian

Last November I attended an Open Data Masterclass at Aberdeen University. I took notes as the day progressed and these are shared below, sometimes quite skeletally, sometimes more completely. It was a very interesting and useful day and clarified and … Continue reading →

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