I’m bad with linear time. Sometime about two months ago, my daughter was four months old. She was healthy and happy and life was good for our family. When we brought her in for her four-month vaccination, I asked our
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Category: Quality of life
Creative Commons and Hope — How Open Access Journals Helped Me in a Dark Time
Posted in Education, Posts from feeds, Public Health, Quality of life, Research, Resilience Tagged with: Bianca Wylie, Creative Commons, health, open access, research, science
Trump Presidency Sees Spike in “Open Data Day” Events Across US Cities
After a two-year decline in the number of “Open Data Day” events held in US cities, the Trump presidency has seen renewed interest in organizing the event, and given it new meaning. By Aaron Wytze It’s hard to say what first alarmed…
Posted in Benefits of open data, democracy, Informing Decision-making, Journalism, Posts from feeds, Quality of life, Resilience, Smart communities, Transparency Tagged with: Aaron Wytze, open data, Transparency
A Story About Open Data (and Snow)
Open access to publicly-funded research accelerates discovery and progress By Jen Caltrider, Global Campaigner, Mozilla It’s Tax Day. Let me tell you a story about my buddy Erik, snow, your taxes, and open data. Here in Colorado where I live, people love…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, Informing Decision-making, Neat tools, Posts from feeds, Quality of life Tagged with: Jen Caltrider, Mozilla, open data, Open Snow, Snow
Catching up with Collideoscope
It’s been a while since we looked in on Collideoscope, our project for reporting and collating data on cycling collisions and near misses, developed in collaboration with ITP. But what better time than now, when days are short and accidents…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Neat tools, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Quality of life, Research, Smart communities, Transparency, Visualising data Tagged with: accidents, Cycling, data, Myfanwy, MySociety, near misses, open data
A case for Data Science + Open Data
Carey Anne Nadeau is the Founder & CEO of Open Data Nation (opendatanation.com) and created FIVAR (fivar.org). Before founding Open Data Nation, Nadeau worked for the past decade doing quantitative research and analysis using open data at the Brookings Institution…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Food, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Quality of life, Smart communities, Visualising data Tagged with: Carey Anne Nadeau, construction, Data Science, food hygiene, Food Safety, International Open Data Conference (IODC), open data, rats, restaurant
The 2016 Open Data Roundtables: New Report on Putting Data to Use
From March through June 2016, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the nonprofit Center for Open Data Enterprise ran a series of four Open Data Roundtables. These events brought together a total of 290 experts…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Open Government, Posts from feeds, Quality of life, Saving money, Smart communities, Transparency Tagged with: Center for Open Data Enterprise, Joel Gurin, Katherine Garcia, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), open data
Launch of the updated Open Data Impact Map
At the 3rd International Open Data Conference in Ottawa, Canada in 2015 the beta version of the Open Data Data Impact Map was launched to provide governments, international organizations, and researchers with a more comprehensive understanding of the demand for…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Open Government, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Quality of life, Saving money, Transparency Tagged with: International Open Data Conference (IODC), mapping, open data, open data impact map
What Works Cities: Using open data to improve outcomes for people and communities
Originally from Indiana, Eric has spent his career working and partnering with organizations around the world to improve public sector performance. Before coming to GovEx, Eric worked on public education initiatives as a Fulbright Grantee in South Korea and at…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Quality of life, Resilience, Saving money, Smart communities, Transparency Tagged with: communities, Eric Reese, International Open Data Conference (IODC), open data, People, What Works Cities
This interactive map lets you watch who commutes to your city every day
In his latest round-up of urban data visualisations, Max Galka reduces English and Welsh commuters to animated dots, reimagines New York as a video game, and explores Lisbon with the ‘graffiti grannies’ If you’ve ever found yourself packed like a…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data Journalism, Journalism, Neat tools, Posts from feeds, Quality of life, Visualising data Tagged with: commute, data visualisation, mapping, Max Galka, ONS, open data, The Guardian
Press release: The UK’s food history revealed through five generations of data
For the first time official records of what people ate and how they survived during rationing have been published by Defra. They show 1940s Brits ate seasonally and bought food from butchers, bakers and grocers rather than supermarkets. Salmon sandwiches,…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data, Environment, Food, Posts from feeds, Public Health, Quality of life Tagged with: DEFRA, Food, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), nutrition, open data, opendefra