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Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: JSON
“Building useful open data” in Ants’ playground
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data.gov.au July 2015 report
Hey folks, This month we’d like to take a diversion from our usual report update and instead talk about CKAN’s DataStore extension (however – for the record – another 269 datasets were added in July). The extension enables data.gov.au to…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Posts from feeds, Transparency Tagged with: Allan Barger, Australia, CKAN, DATA.GOV.AU, JSON, statistics, Twitter
Arrays, Objects, and Trees: A Look at JSON-formatted Contracting Data
The Open Impact Day conference hosted in Washington, D.C. this past month highlighted examples of open data in improving trust between citizens and their governments. In Ukraine, a recently launched website named Prozorro gives users an unprecedented look into the…
NIAssembly Open Data – #opendata #ni #spark #clojure
Data From Stormont The Northern Ireland Assembly has opened up a fair chunk of data as a web service, returning results in either XML or JSON format. And from first plays with it, it’s rather well put together. What I’ve…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Transparency Tagged with: data, Jason Bell, JSON, Northern Ireland, open data, science, Spark, Stormont, web services
Open Singularity – Civil Service Innovation Challenge
This morning I came across this Civil Service Innovation Challenge that offers the opportunity to win a trip to California to undertake the Singularity University ‘Executive Program’. Singularity University is a slightly odd Silicon Valley corporate learning start-up with some…
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Exploring ‘Rivers of Data’
This week saw the beta release of the Environment Agency’s flood data APIs and 4 new open data products from Ordnance Survey including the detailed OS Open Map – Local and the new OS Open Rivers network data. Alex Coley’s…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Saving money, Transparency Tagged with: Alex Coley, API, Environment Agency, GeoJSON, Jess Dyer, JSON, open data, opendefra, Ordnance Survey, Paul Hyatt, QGIS, rivers
SPARQL and Shine
Did you know that you can extract information held on Wikipedia in a dataset? DBpedia makes it all possible. I wondered if I could write a query to extract details of disused stations in Scotland and map them. About DBpedia…
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