20 resources for finding and using data in stories
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
Category: Informing Decision-making
10 Big Data Use Cases Everyone Must Read
What do you think of when you think of “big data”? For many, it’s a nebulous term that invokes images of huge server farms humming away. Or perhaps you think of receiving some kind of personalized advertisement from a retailer. …
Guest blog: Open Data in government, inspiring better and cheaper services
Open Data can fundamentally change government and the way we govern says John Jackson, CIO at Camden Council. Being ‘open data by default’ puts councils in the shoes of their customers and incubates fresh thinking and innovative service delivery he …
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Indianapolis launches open data portal for police incidents
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department is now releasing data on officer encounters in a new open data portal. (Wikimedia Commons) In a bid to build trust among its citizens, Indianapolis announced it released information about potentially controversial police incidents in a new open …
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A hobbyist hacker, spreadsheet warrior and API advocate walked in to a pub…
medium.com – That is basically the life of being a data publisher at the moment. Leigh has written a great post about ‘Who is the intended audience for open data?’ where he articulates some of the problems and … Tweeted …
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Climate Smart Agriculture and Open Data at COP21
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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Open data & Climate change – Agriculture trends for COP21
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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More than 570 new datasets added to Community Insight & Local Insight
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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Moving towards ‘open by default’
Interview: Wendy Carrara and Dinand Tinhold, leads of the EU Data Portal project, talk about the lessons from two new studies on open data
A Step-by-Step Guide to the 2011 Indian Census: Its Successes, Failures and Questions
This post is the third post in our Decoding Open Data series. The foundation of this series is our slideshare, which examines the open dataset and provides key insights and analytics about the 2011 Census. Decoding Open Data: 2011 Indian Census …
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