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Jer Thorp: Make data more human | Video on TED.com

TED Talks Jer Thorp creates beautiful data visualizations to put abstract data into a human context.

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Fingal Open Data - Apps4Fingal

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Fingal County Council Open Data Datasets...Discover Fingal is Overall Winner at Apps4Fingal Competition.
A tourism app, Discover Fingal, that helps visitors navigate local attractions picking up loyalty points along the way, has been voted the overall winner in Fingal County Council’s Apps4Fingal competition at a ceremony in Swords this evening hosted by Mayor of Fingal, Cllr. Gerry McGuire.
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What is Linked Open Data? « EUscreen

What is Linked Open Data? « EUscreen | Open Data Development with Joomla | Scoop.it
RT @euscreen: On the blog: this animation from @EuropeanaEU answers your every question about Linked Open Data http://t.co/lelJ0UH9 #heritage #tech #lod...
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New Workshop: Using Open Data - semanticweb.com

New Workshop: Using Open Data - semanticweb.com | Open Data Development with Joomla | Scoop.it
The W3C has announced a new workshop, Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism.
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Step 1. Boring data, Step 2. ???, Step 3. Big profit

Step 1. Boring data, Step 2. ???, Step 3. Big profit | Open Data Development with Joomla | Scoop.it
Your government has a lot of useful public data, but it is not always in the most useful format. How can we, as a community, take that information and turn it into something productive?
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From pipe to platform: The US CIO on the future of open data

From pipe to platform: The US CIO on the future of open data | Open Data Development with Joomla | Scoop.it
Steven VanRoekel: "We have to get out of the data business and into the platform business."...
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Foursquare Dumps Google & Goes Open-Source for Maps

Foursquare Dumps Google & Goes Open-Source for Maps | Open Data Development with Joomla | Scoop.it
Foursquare just made what it called "a little announcement", but it's really not little at all. It's switching away from the Google Maps API to OpenStreetMap.
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How Big Data Is Changing Everything

How Big Data Is Changing Everything | Open Data Development with Joomla | Scoop.it
John Jarve and Kevin Brown There’s a radical transformation happening in information technology today, one that promises to be every bit as significant—and every bit as disruptive to existing business models—as were Web applications in the 1990s...

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Announcing the Open Data Handbook version 1.0 | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog

Announcing the Open Data Handbook version 1.0 | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog | Open Data Development with Joomla | Scoop.it

The Open Knowledge Foundation are proud to announce the launch of version 1.0 of the Open Data Handbook (formerly the Open Data Manual):

 

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Exploring Open Charity Data with Nominet Trust : Tim's Blog

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Exploring Open Charity Data with Nominet Trust : Tim's Blog

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The European Data Forum (EDF) 2012 will take place on June 6-7, 2012 in Copenhagen (Denmark) at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS).

The European Data Forum (EDF) 2012 will take place on June 6-7, 2012 in Copenhagen (Denmark) at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS).

 

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Making the Most of Open Data in Education Studies | Open Education Resources

Making the Most of Open Data in Education Studies | Open Education Resources | Open Data Development with Joomla | Scoop.it
A full-day hands-on workshop combining open data and easy-to-use data visualisation tools to enable pedagogical development and course redesign.
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Citizensheep » A council might publish open data, but how does it encourage good use of that data?

Citizensheep » A council might publish open data, but how does it encourage good use of that data? | Open Data Development with Joomla | Scoop.it
RT @siwhitehouse: Excellent post from @citizensheep on encouraging #opendata reuse by #localgov http://t.co/5S2Efa6y...
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Country Commitments | Open Government Partnership

Country Commitments | Open Government Partnership | Open Data Development with Joomla | Scoop.it

Where is Ireland? Country Commitments | Open Government Partnership |

 

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Welcome to the Open Data User Group

Back in October I wrote about a UK government consultation on the subject of the proposed Public Data Corporation. The government has now responded with one of its well-written documents [pdf]. Here's part of the executive summary: Charging • Many...
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Finding and consuming (Linked) Open Data

This presentation is about Open Data and Linked Open Data. It has been shown to researchers working in the eHumanities group.
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Talk About Local » Thanks for the open data promise (but don’t forget our freedom of information)

Talk About Local » Thanks for the open data promise (but don’t forget our freedom of information) | Open Data Development with Joomla | Scoop.it

Welcome news for those involved in open data campaigning this morning – the government is looking into new ways of releasing information and has appointed wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales to help.

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The Commentator - Open data: resist Sir Humphrey’s last stand

The Commentator - Time to open data and nip caveats and excuses in the bud, writes Michael Cross...
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Do We Have a Right To Open Public Data?

Do We Have a Right To Open Public Data? | Open Data Development with Joomla | Scoop.it
The progress made by the open data movement is pretty extraordinary. A few years ago, data was something that only statisticians cared about, but today it is one of the most vibrant areas of exploration and innovation.
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Open Data and Public Administrations: new applications and services - eGov monitor

Open Data and Public Administrations: new applications and serviceseGov monitorThis means that open data can be used as a starting point to create new applications and services by public administrations, companies and citizens, or to provide a...
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Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper - Opinion

Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper - Opinion | Open Data Development with Joomla | Scoop.it
From open data to a closed Internet

By Esther Dyson/New York

Within the tech community, there is much angst about whether the web is about to be “closed”. Will it be controlled by companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google, or will it
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From broadcast to conversation – making open data work for you – Consumer Focus

Open data can change the way services are provided and government delivered. Now is an important time to ensure consumers are at the heart of this.

 

A free workshop exploring opportunities in open data for the voluntary sector

Tuesday 20 March 2012, 10:00 – 16:30. Central London.

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Weave open-source data visualization offers power, flexibility

Weave open-source data visualization offers power, flexibility | Open Data Development with Joomla | Scoop.it
The project, three years in the making and still in beta, is just starting to be rolled out by government and planning agencies.
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Constructing an open data platform

Constructing an open data platform | Open Data Development with Joomla | Scoop.it

I spent the second afternoon of UK Gov Camp in the session on open data platform (Good post by @siwhitehouse on constructing an open data platform: http://t.co/lo0vDczM...)...

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Pentaho Kettle Webinar: Learn about Pentaho’s Open Sourcing of High Productivity Visual Big Data Tools

Pentaho Kettle Webinar: Learn about Pentaho's Open Sourcing of High Productivity Visual Big Data Tools (Pentaho Kettle Webinar: Learn about Pentaho's Open Sourcing of High Productivity Visual Big Data Tools -
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