Microsoft’s PowerBI is a new tool for creating reports and visualisations. The desktop application is currently free and publishing data is very easy. Step 1 Open your data from the wide selection …
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: hyperlocal
Publishing Open Data with PowerBI
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From data crunching to storytelling: Lessons from six months of Urbs.London
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…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, Data Journalism, Innovation, Journalism, Posts from feeds Tagged with: Alan Renwick, Caroline Scott, Data Journalism, Data stories, Gary Rogers, hyperlocal, Hyperlocal Data Journalism conference, journalism, Journalism.co.uk, London Data Store, news, open data, Spreadsheet Journalism, Urbs.London
How the Census Bureau evangelizes open data
Apps using open data to solve civic problems were showcased at Census Bureau demo day.
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, How, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Smart communities Tagged with: Bianca Spinosa, competition, FCW, hyperlocal, open data, U.S. Census Bureau
#HLDJ Conference 6th and 7th November 2015
This post was created automatically from a feed, and was originally published at: http://digidickinson.net/2015/06/22/hldj-conference-6th-and-7th-november-2015/ This isn’t meant to be a conference about Hyperlocal data journalism (but it could be!) It’s a conference about the way that Hyperlocal AND/OR data AND/OR journalism…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Smart communities, Transparency Tagged with: Andy Dickinson, Data Journalism, digital, hyperlocal, journalism, open data
Is that a car park in your pocket?
My wife has a high bar for things that can genuinely be called useful. Bath: Hacked has finally managed to impress her. I love open data and bang on a lot about it – it’ll change the world, right? Unfortunately…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Saving money, Visualising data Tagged with: Bath, Bath Hacked, Car Park, data store, Data stories, data visualisation, hyperlocal, innovation, open data, Parking, Richard Speigal, Webunknown