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Tag Archives: open data
Facts Are Sacred – a review
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
Use IFTTT & Readitlater to mine info from Twitter
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
Posted in Coding, Hacking, IFTTT, Open Data, Open Government, Readitlater, Twitter
Tagged IFTTT, open data, Readitlater, twitter
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Film – What is Open Data?
Here is an excellent short film (with subtitles available in several languages), made available by the Open Knowledge Foundation. Use it as a primer for those who don’t yet get Open Data at your workplace. The original page is here
PLODS – but faster
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
NHTG11 – a personal reflection
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
Posted in Collaboration, Hacking, Linked Data, Open Data, Open Government
Tagged hack day, linked data, nhtg11, open data, university
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Open Data – some (mostly recent) bookmarks
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
Open Data Masterclass – Aberdeen University 17 November 2010
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
Posted in Innovation, Linked Data, Local Government, Open Data, Open Government
Tagged Aberdeen, conferences, events, linked data, notes, open data, practical, presentations, RDF, Scotland, Uk
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National Hack the Government Day 2011
The third national Hack The Government Day takes place on Saturday 26th March 2011. This year’s hosts for the main event are The Guardian. As ever this day is all about having free reign, doing whatever you fancy and showing … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Linked Data, News, Open Data
Tagged apps, developers, hack day, linked data, open data
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