The accidental government data portal I’ve fallen into a dream project that gets me paid to play with numbers and it’s turning into an interesting template for using open data to create both commercial and public value. I’m currently working …

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Marianne Bouchart, communications director and Data Journalism Award Manager at the Global Editors Network, shares her list of tools and tips for sourcing data online

Partners of the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative call for political leaders at COP21 to make the most obvious data open; “farmers need weather data in order to adapt to climate change”. Climate Change and Agriculture …

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Partners of the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative call for political leaders at COP21 to make the most obvious data open; “farmers need weather data in order to adapt to climate change.”   What is the …

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What better way to celebrate World Statistics Day than with the largest ever addition of data to Community Insight and Local Insight. Today we have added over 570 new indicators to Community Insight and Local Insight, giving our users access …

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Screenshot of the Solomon storyboard, where users can search for stories to personalise their canvases

Credit: By Alex Liivet on Flickr. Some rights reserved. “I have always been of a mind that data can be very elitist and that you’ve got to be quite technical to understand it,” So Mark Barrett, director at Hebe Works, …

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Comments Credit: By Justgrimes on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Over the past six months, journalist Gary Rogers and media strategist Alan Renwick have run the experimental website Urbs.London, a news operation which turns open data into news stories. The site …

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Analysis by PwC shows five to tenfold return on investment for seven projects in Challenge Series A series of open data projects have provided evidence of the potential value to the UK economy, according to a report published today by …

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The open data movement is in transition. Over the past decade, the public sector has dramatically increased the quantity and regularity with which it publishes open data. Legislation at the federal and local levels suggests that open data is here …

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Laser data from the Environment Agency is to be used to pinpoint land suitable for growing high quality grapes